India : India is seeing another surge in the Covid-19 pandemic driven largely by fresh cases in the southern state of Kerala, Health Ministry data released Saturday showed.
On Saturday, India reported 46,759 new cases of Covid-19, the highest for a 24-hour period in about two months, said dpa international.
Kerala reported about 70 per cent of the fresh cases. Loosening of restrictions on gatherings and travel during the annual festival of Onam is suspected of leading to the latest spike in numbers.
Saturday is the third consecutive day that India has reported more than 45,000 infections in a single day since July 7.
India is currently second only to the United States in terms of its coronavirus caseload, with over 32.6 million cases. Over 437,370 people have died.
A bulk of the deaths occurred as a virulent second wave of the pandemic peaked in April-May putting the country’s health infrastructure under pressure.
Amid concern about a flagging vaccination drive, the Health Ministry said bottlenecks over vaccine supply were being resolved and a record 10 million people had been vaccinated in a single day on Friday.
India has so far delivered one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to a little over 50 per cent of its adult population estimated at around 940 million and about 15 per cent have got both doses, according to the Health Ministry.
