As many as 3,32,730 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload to 16,263,695, the Union health ministry said on Friday morning. The graph of daily new cases has gone up again, with India clocking in over 3 lakh for the second day in a row. Further, there are 70 districts, across 16 states, where the number of new weekly cases exceeded 5,000 in the past week. There are 27 states where the number of Covid-19 deaths has increased for two weeks running. Registration for this category will begin from 28 April on the CoWIN platform and Aarogya Setu app, the health ministry said on Thursday.

Source: Mint April 23, 2021 04:17 UTC