COVID-19: Six states reported 86.25 per cent of new cases

An elderly citizen gets her first COVID-19 shot in Bengaluru on Saturday. Pic/PTI

Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are the six states that cumulatively account for 86.25 per cent of the new cases reported in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

They have a weekly positivity rate more than the national average of 2.29 per cent. In the last 24 hours, a total of 18,599 new cases were registered, the ministry added.

The Centre is regularly holding high-level review meetings with the states and Union Territories showing a surge in new daily cases and the health secretary is also holding weekly review meetings, it said. Eighteen states and UTs have not reported any deaths in the last 24 hours.

The ministry said nearly 2.10 crore vaccine doses had been administered till 7 am on Monday.

Will cover vaccine cost of 2,000 staffers, kin: Sify
ICT solutions provider Sify Technologies Ltd on Monday said it will cover the vaccine cost for more than 2,000 employees and their family members. Employees can get their elderly family members vaccinated at designated hospitals across the country immediately, and themselves when the government extends the facility for all. "One of the tenets of the Sify way is ‘always remember you are part of the Sify team'. In rolling out this benefit, we just extended that tenet to the family," said Sify's Chairman Raju Vegesna.

1,12,29,398
Total number of cases in the country as of today

1,57,853
Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India

1,08,82,798
Patients Recovered and discharged in India as of today

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