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India COVID19

India records 26,291 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours, 118 deaths

| @indiablooms | Mar 15, 2021, at 03:28 pm

New Delhi: India continued to register an upsurge in daily case count as fresh 26,291 COVID-19 cases were registered in the past 24 hours, as per Ministry of health released data on Monday.

In the same period, 17,455 people have recovered from COVID-19.

During the same period, 118 new deaths due to the deadly virus were recorded.

The death toll due to the disease now stands at 1,58,725.

There are 219262 active cases in the country at present.

Maharashtra situation:

Maharashtra on Sunday recorded 16,620 fresh cases of corona positive, highest in the year, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 23,14,413, Health Department said.

While 50 more deaths were also reported taking the death toll to 52,861.

Meanwhile, a total of 8,861 patients recovered and were discharged taking the total number of recoveries to 21,34,072 across the state.

The state government has so far tested 1,75,16,885 samples for the disease .

With this the recovery rates sharply goes down and stand to 92.21 per cent and fatality rate is 2.28 per cent.

At present 1,26,231 active patients across the state were undergoing treatment at different Covid centres and hospitals, they added.

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