‘India has demonstrated an exponential increase in the number of COVID-19 cumulative tests’
The total number of persons in the country infected with the U.K. mutant strain of COVID-19 is 90, said a release issued by the Health Ministry on Saturday.
It added that India has recorded 228 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours, with Maharashtra reporting 73 deaths, Kerala seeing a fatality count of 23, followed by 21 deaths in West Bengal.
India also reported 18,222 COVID-19 cases during this time, and ten States/UTs have contributed 79.83% of the new cases. Kerala reported 5,142 cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra recorded 3,693 new cases, while Karnataka reported 970 daily cases noted the Ministry.
“India has demonstrated an exponential increase in the number of COVID-19 cumulative tests. It has crossed the landmark of 18 crore. In the last 24 hours 9,16,951 tests were conducted,” said the Ministry.
It noted that the progressive countrywide expansion in testing…