India has for the first time since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, recorded more than 100,000 cases in a single day.
On Monday, India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported that some 103,558 positive cases of coronavirus had been recorded in a single day.
The development has made India the second country behind the US to record 100,000 plus confirmed cases of coronavirus on a daily basis.
The Health Ministry further reported that hospitals in India’s worst affected coronavirus states were overwhelmed.
Data from the Asian nation’s health ministry showed that it has so far recorded 12.6 million confirmed cases of covid19 since the pandemic outbreak, becoming the third highest covid19 affected nation after the US and Brazil.
In September 2020, India was recording at least over 90,000 cases daily.
The Health Ministry in its latest report announced that the western state of Maharashtra, recorded 57,074 new cases overnight, contributing to over 55 percent of total cases in the country in the last two weeks.
On Sunday, April 4, 2021, the Government introduced new covid-19 induced restrictions, including a night curfew and a weekend lockdown, to prevent the further spread of the virus.
The state is expected to close shopping malls, cinemas, bars, restaurants and places of worship from Monday evening.
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