77.7% of new cases were reported in the last 24 hours in Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the ‘Janata Curfew’ after a year, which ended on March 25 last year due to a national lockdown, with new daily cases reaching 43,846 – a new high for this year. This brought the number of confirmed infections in India to around 11.6 million.
77.7% of new cases were reported in the last 24 hours in Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Maharashtra reported 27,126 cases, while 2,578 cases were reported in Punjab and 2,078 in Kerala.
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More than 80% of the new cases were from six states.
The districts reporting the most cases were Maharashtra, Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai, Thane and Nashik.
Till now, 7 million vaccine doses have been given till 7 am on Sunday. These include 7.7 million healthcare workers who have received at least one dose and 4.8 million who have received both. About 8 million frontline workers received the first dose as 2.6 million who received both doses. Approximately 17 million seniors have been vaccinated with at least one dose as specific infections, with 45 above 3.6 million.
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India’s total active case load was three lakhs, an increase of 20,639 cases in the last 24 hours. There were 197 deaths in the last 24 hours. In six states, Maharashtra accounted for 7% of the deaths, followed by 3% in Punjab and 15% in Kerala.
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