Top Coronavirus Updates: India logs over 4000 Covid-19 cases yet again; Maharashtra, Kerala report surge in infections

India has been reporting a surge in Covid-19 infections consistently for the past few days now. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Monday, the country logged 4,518 new coronavirus infections and nine fresh fatalities. The nine new fatalities include four from Kerala, two from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal. The total tally of Covid cases has been pushed to 4,31,81,335, while the death toll climbed to 5,24,701. India’s active case tally has increased to 25,782. Here are some latest updates on Coronavirus spread:

– The active Covid-19 cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.73 per cent, as per the latest official data. An increase of 1,730 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

– The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.62 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was 0.91 per cent. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,26,30,852, while the case fatality rate was 1.22 per cent.

– With the addition of 273 new COVID-19 cases, the infection tally in Maharashtra’s Thane district has gone up to 7,11,115, an official said told PTI on Monday. These new cases were reported on Sunday, he said.