The speed of coronavirus is increasing these days in the country. Yes, a total of 18,840 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported across the country in the last 24 hours. During this time, 43 people died due to this dangerous virus. With this, the active cases of Corona in India have crossed 1.5 lakh. Let us tell you all that at present, the total active cases across the country have increased to 1,25,028. On the other hand, according to the data of the health department, there has been a slight decline in Covid cases in the country as compared to yesterday.
In fact, on Friday, 18,930 new cases were reported in the country. At the same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a new sub-variant BA.2.75 of the omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India. This changing form of Corona has raised the concern of scientists around the world. Let us tell you that 2,994 new cases of coronavirus infection were reported in Maharashtra on Friday and seven patients died due to the pandemic. Yes, during this period, 191 new cases were reported in Himachal Pradesh and 101 new infections were found in Jammu and Kashmir. A Maharashtra health department official said that after the new cases were reported, the total number of infections has gone up to 79,98,673 and the death toll has reached 1,47,971. Two patients each died in Mumbai and Vasai-Virar and one each in Thane, Raigad and Aurangabad on the last day due to the pandemic.
You all know that the number of infected people in the country reached 20 lakh on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 2020, and more than 40 lakh on September 5, 2020. Yes, and the total cases of infection had crossed 50 lakh on September 16, 2020, 60 lakh on September 28, 2020, 70 lakh on October 11, 2020, 80 lakh on October 29, 2020, and 90 lakh on November 20. On December 19, 2020, these cases in the country had crossed one crore. The number of infections had crossed two crores on May 4 last year and three crores on June 23, 2021, and on January 25 this year, the cases crossed four crores.
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