{"id":15746,"date":"2021-05-17T06:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T06:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=15746"},"modified":"2021-05-17T06:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T06:02:39","slug":"india-records-over-2-81-lakh-new-covid-19-cases-4106-fatalities-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/india-records-over-2-81-lakh-new-covid-19-cases-4106-fatalities-in-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"India records over 2.81 lakh new COVID-19 cases, 4,106 fatalities in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s daily spike of coronavirus cases remained below the&nbsp;3 lakh mark&nbsp;for the first time in nearly 26 days as only 2,81,386 fresh infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the&nbsp;Union Health Ministry\u2019s data on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 22, the country achieved a grim milestone in its fight against the raging coronavirus as it reported over 3 lakh new cases in a 24-hour period for the first time since the pandemic began last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/cbse-class-12-board-exam-2021-cancellation-big-update-students-must-know\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/cbse-class-12-board-exam-2021-cancellation-big-update-students-must-know\/\"> CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 CANCELLATION: BIG update students must know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported 4,106 Covid-related new deaths in the country and 3,78,741 fresh recoveries during the 24-hour period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cumulative caseload stands at 2,49,65,463, including 2,11,74,076 recoveries, 35,16,997 active cases and 2,74,390 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 31,64,23,658 samples have been tested for COVID-19 up to May 16, of these, 15,73,515 samples were tested on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karnataka, which has recently emerged as the new COVID-19 hotspot, continues to remain the worst affected state at present with 6,00,168 active infections. Maharashtra follows with 4,70,595 active cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 18,29,26,460 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across the country so far.<br>On Sunday, the&nbsp;Union Health Ministry&nbsp;informed that a declining trend in daily positivity rate was also observed which stood now at 16.98 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It pointed out that the national recovery rate improved to 84.25 per cent while the mortality rate currently stands at 1.09 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 States including Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu cumulatively account for 74.69 per cent of India\u2019s total Active Cases, the ministry had informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s daily spike of coronavirus cases remained below the&nbsp;3 lakh mark&nbsp;for the first time in nearly 26 days as only 2,81,386 fresh infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the&nbsp;Union Health Ministry\u2019s data on Monday. On April 22, the country achieved a grim milestone in its fight against the raging coronavirus as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}