India continues to report close to 23K cases

New Delhi, March 12 : For second day in a row, India’s single day rise on Friday recorded close to 23,000 new Covid-19 cases.
The country on Friday reported 22,885 new Covid-19 cases, 117 fatalities, bringing the national infection tally to 1,13,08,846 while the death toll reached 1,58,306, according to the Union Health Ministry.
For the last three days, the number of fatalities has spiked, which earlier was hovering under 100.
On Thursday, India had reported 22,854 Covid-19 cases and 126 deaths while on Wednesday, 17,921 Covid-19 cases and 133 deaths were recorded.
As per the Ministry’s data, there are 1,97,237 active cases at present. Besides, 15,157 patients of Covid-19 were discharged in a day. A total of 1,09,53,303 persons have been discharged so far.
The rise in the number of Covid-19 cases, which had so far looked confined to Maharashtra and Punjab, is now beginning to show in several other states.