India sees decline in COVID-19 cases for second straight day, records over 3.29 lakh infections

New Delhi: India noticed a decline in COVID-19 cases for the second straight day and recorded over 3.29 lakh infections, the info by the Union Health Ministry stated on Tuesday (May 10, 2021).

There had been 3,29,942 new COVID-19 cases and three,876 deaths in the final 24 hours. The complete variety of coronavirus cases in the nation has now elevated to 2.26 crore, of which, 1.90 crore folks have recovered, whereas 2.49 have died of the virus.

India, going by the second wave of coronavirus, now has 37,15,221 energetic cases. 13 states cumulatively account for over 82% of the nation’s complete energetic cases.

Earlier on Monday, India’s each day rise in COVID-19 cases had retreated from the 4 lakh mark and had seen 3,66,161 19 infections. 

This is to be famous that India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 in 2020, the 50-lakh mark on September 16 and the one-crore mark on December 19. 

However, the current unprecedented rise in cases took the determine to the grim milestone of two crore on May 4.

This comes a day after World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan termed the speed of infections and deaths in India as ‘worrying’ and known as on governments to spice up workouts on reporting precise numbers.

“I would say that at this point in time, the situation is very worrying, the daily number of cases and deaths that we are seeing today in India and other countries in the Southeast area region is a big concern for us and we also realise that these are underestimates. Every country in the world, in fact, the number of cases and deaths has been underestimated to its true number,” Soumya Swaminathan instructed ANI.

Meanwhile, the cumulative variety of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the nation stands at 17.26 crore, as per the 8 pm provisional report on Monday. India, notably, is the quickest nation globally to manage 17 crore coronavirus vaccine doses.

5,18,479 beneficiaries of the age group 18-44 years obtained their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, which took the full quantity to 25.52 lakh throughout 30 states and UTs because the begin of Phase-3 of the vaccination drive.