India reports 37,875 COVID-19 cases, 369 deaths in 24 hours
New Delhi/IBNS: India reported 37,875 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the toll went up by 369 in the same period, the Union Health Ministry said Wednesday morning.
The active cases now constitute 1.18% of the total number of cases in the country.
The recovery rate is currently at 97.48% with 39,114 COVID-19 patients recovering from the respiratory disease between Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.
Maintaining the strong vaccination drive, the country has so far administered 70.75 crore vaccine doses in this vast country of 1.3 billion people.
Though the country's overall caseload seems under control, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said the third wave was already here.
"The third wave of COVID-19 is not coming, it is here," she told reporters.
Maharashtra along with Kerala are adding the biggest pie of daily cases in India, which has witnessed the COVID-19 graph declining in past several weeks.
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