According to doctors' statement, the COVID-19 virus spreads rapidly but is less severe in this wave in states to states. the virus has undergone a double mutation, and the current strain is highly infectious among children.

Meantime, Pune reported a record 12,494 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the district's tally to 5,74,829, the third successive day when new case addition peaks were touched, an official said.

On Saturday, the tally had increased by 10,827, while the addition was 9,086 on Friday, he pointed out. A total of 64 deaths took the toll to 10,227, while 3,762 people were discharged, he added.

"Of the new cases, 6,225 are in Pune city, 3,382 in Pimpri Chinchwad and the rest in rural and cantonment areas. The caseload of Pune city is 2,90,044 and that of Pimpri Chinchwad is 1,50,928. It is 1,33,857 in rural and cantonment areas," the official informed.

Ini India, the daily rise in COVID-19 cases crossed the grim landmark of one-lakh from 20,000 infections in just 25 days, unlike last year when it took 76 days for daily cases to reach the then peak of 97,894 on September 17, reflecting the speed at which the virus is spreading.

India recorded an all-time high of 1,03,558 single-day new coronavirus infections pushing the nationwide COVID-19 tally of cases to 1,25,89,067, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

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