Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu continue to report a surge in COVID-19 daily cases, accounting for 78.41 percent of the new cases, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. A total of 26,291 new cases were registered in a day. Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 16,620 (accounting for 63.21 percent of the daily new cases). It is followed by Kerala with 1,792 while Punjab reported 1,492 new cases.
“A rising trajectory of daily new cases is visible in eight states. These are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Haryana,” the ministry said.

Kerala has a consistently declining trend over the last one month, it stated. India’s total COVID-19 active caseload has reached 2,19,262 comprising 1.93 percent of the total infections. Maharashtra, Kerala, and Punjab, cumulatively account for 77 percent of India’s total active cases. Maharashtra alone accounts for more than 58 percent of the total active cases in the country. India is, meanwhile, fast approaching total vaccination coverage of 3 crores.

The ministry said 2,99,08,038 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered through 5,13,065 sessions, as per the provisional report till Monday 7 am. These include 73,55,755 healthcare workers (HCWs) who have been administered 1st dose, 43,05,118 HCWs who have been given the 2nd dose, 73,40,423 frontline workers (FLWs) who have taken the 1st dose and 11,50,535 FLWs who have received the 2nd dose.