New Delhi – India on Thursday reported 760 fresh COVID-19 cases and two virus-related deaths, as per an update from the Union Health Ministry.
The latest fatalities include one death each from Kerala and Karnataka in the last 24 hours. The total number of active coronavirus infections currently stands at 4,423 across the country.
On Wednesday, India had seen 602 new cases and five COVID deaths nationally. The rise in cases this week comes after infections had ebbed to double digits in early December.
In Uttar Pradesh, a 63-year-old woman who had tested positive for COVID-19 recently died during treatment in Lucknow on Wednesday.
According to the state’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Manoj Agrawal, the patient was suffering from kidney injury, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and other comorbidities when she was hospitalized on December 31 last year.
She developed COVID pneumonia along with sepsis and type-2 respiratory failure throughout her treatment before succumbing to the illness yesterday.
This marks the first death of a COVID patient this year in Uttar Pradesh, which has seen a gradual uptick in coronavirus infections over the past few weeks in line with national trends.
However, authorities have stressed that the current trajectory remains under control and there are no reasons to panic. But they have urged citizens to get precautionary/booster vaccine doses and follow COVID-appropriate behavior.
