India’s Covid-19 caseload is all set to touch one crore anytime soon as infection tally mounted to 99,32,547 on Wednesday when 26,382 people fell ill to virus in a day, while the deaths rose to 1,44,096 with 387 new fatalities.
The Union Health Ministry data showed that the active Covid-19 caseload of the country stands at 3,32,002, which is 3.34 per cent of the total coronavirus cases in India.
“The ongoing trend of contraction of India’s total active cases continues. The active caseload of the country stands at 3,32,002. The share of active cases in the total positive cases has further shrunk to 3.34 per cent,” the Ministry said in a statement here.
“India has recorded less than 40,000 daily new cases since the last 17 days. In the last 24 hours, only 26,382 persons were found to be infected with Covid in India. A total of 75.84 per cent of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs.