Coronavirus live updates: At 97,400, India records highest daily spike

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At 97,400, India records highest daily case tally

India registered its highest Covid-19 cases in a single day on Wednesday at 97,399 — crossing the 97,000 mark for the first time since the pandemic began — even as the country appeared to be inching closer to the grim reality of recording one lakh fresh cases in a day.

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2,227 new Covid-19 cases, 839 recoveries & 43 deaths reported in Mumbai today. The total number of positive cases increases to 1,60,744 in Mumbai, including 25,659 active cases, 1,26,745 recovered cases & 7,982 deaths: BMC

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Covid cases rising due to aggressive testing; death rate low: Kejriwal

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said COVID-19 cases in Delhi would have been in the range of 1,500 had the government continued to conduct only 15,000-20,000 tests per day. His reaction came in response to data that showed Delhi recorded 4,039 fresh COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day spike so far, as the total number of cases breached the two lakh-mark.

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Punjab records highest single-day spike of 2,137 new Covid-19 cases, infection tally rises to 69,684. Seventy-one more fatalities take death toll to 2,061, reports PTI quoting state bulletin

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The central drug regulator has issued a show-cause notice to Serum Institute of India (SII) for not informing it about pharma giant AstraZeneca pausing the clinical trials of the Oxford vaccine candidate for Covid-19 in other countries and also for not submitting casualty analysis of the "reported serious adverse events".

Covid-19 death toll in West Bengal rises to 3,730 with 53 fresh fatalities; 3,107 new cases take tally to 1,90,063: Health Department

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Nagpur registers 1,319 fresh COVID-19 cases; 59 deaths

With the detection of 1,319 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the tally of infections in Maharashtra's Nagpur district reached 44,556, an official said. Apart from this, 59 COVID-19 patients succumbed to the infection, raising the casualties to 1,458, the official said.