Corona Cases In India: On Saturday (April 1), 669 cases of corona virus were registered in Maharashtra, due to which the state’s total number of infected people increased to 81,44,780, while there was no change in the death toll of 1,48,441. An official of the Health Department gave this information.
The official said that on Friday in the state corona virus 425 cases were registered, while 694 cases were registered on Thursday. He told that 347 cases were registered in the Mumbai metropolitan area.
In the last 24 hours, so many patients were cured in Maharashtra.
The official said that after the recovery of 435 patients in the last 24 hours, the number of people recovering from the infection increased to 79,93,015, while the number of active patients in the state increased to 3,324. According to the data of the state health department, the death rate in the state is 1.82 percent. In the last 24 hours, 9,774 samples were tested.
Increase in corona cases in Delhi
Apart from Maharashtra, new cases of corona have also increased in the national capital Delhi. On Saturday (April 1), 416 new cases of corona were registered in Delhi, which is the highest figure in seven months. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had shared information about the daily corona cases coming up a day earlier (on March 31) that on March 15, 42 cases were reported, which increased to 295 cases within 15 days (on March 30). . With this, he had said that XBB1.16 variant has been found in 48 percent of corona cases. However, he also said that there is nothing to worry about.
There were so many cases in the country
According to the data released by the Ministry of Health on Saturday (April 1), 2,994 cases of corona were reported in the country in the last 24 hours. There was a slight decline in the number of cases registered in a day on Saturday as 3,095 new cases of corona were reported across the country on Friday (March 31), which is the highest number of cases registered in a day since January this year (2023). Most were At present, the number of active patients of Corona is 16,354 across the country.
Frightening XBB1.16 variant!
The XBB1.16 variant is also believed to be the reason behind the increasing cases of corona in India. Recently (on March 27), media reports quoted new data from the Indian SARS-Cov-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) as saying that 610 cases of the XBB.1.16 variant of Covid were found across the country. Samples of this variant were found in 11 states and union territories.
Explain that regarding the XBB1.16 variant, it is also being suggested by the experts that people should follow the Corona guidelines, such as wearing masks in crowded places, taking care of cleanliness and Those suffering from serious illness or lung related disease should be more careful.