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Coronavirus live updates: India reported a record of 4,529 new deaths and 267,334 fresh Covid-19 infections today, taking the caseload tally to 25,496,330. Stay tuned for corona-related news

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	<strong>Coronavirus live updates</strong>: India witnessed a marginal rise with 267,334 fresh coronavirus cases on Wednesday. However, the new infection count remained below the 300,000-mark for the third consecutive day. The total caseload stands at 25,496,330, according to <em>MoHFW</em>.<br />
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	Meanwhile, even as Covid cases decline in the country, high fatality rate remains a worry. India reported a national record of 4,529 new deaths. The country has been reporting over 4,000 deaths per day due to complications linked to coronavirus infections for over a week now.</div>
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	With 33,059 cases reported in the past 24 hours, Tamil Nadu is leading the state list. It is followed by Kerala and Karnataka as both reported over 30,000 cases on Tuesday. Maharashtra, which was leading the list for months reported the country&rsquo;s fourth highest case count with 28,438 new infections. Andhra Pradesh reported 21,320 cases and was the fifth state to report over 20,000 cases. The case count was 19,428 for West Bengal and 10,321 for Odisha and no other state reported over 10,000 cases today.</div>
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	The six most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (5,433,506), Karnataka (2,272,374), Kerala (2,200,706), Uttar Pradesh (1,637,663), Tamil Nadu (1,664,350), and Delhi (1,398,391).</div>
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	<strong>World coronavirus update:</strong> Coronavirus cases rise unabated across the globe with 164,873,087 infected by the deadly contagion. While 145,009,350 have recovered, 3,417,706 have died so far. The US remains the worst-hit country with 33,773,544, followed by India, Brazil, France and Turkey. However, in the past seven days, India has added the highest number of fresh cases at 2,236,043, followed by the Brazil (447,076) and US (224,631).</div>

Covid LIVE: Maharashtra sees over 34,000 cases in a day; 1,350 in Mumbai

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Covid crisis: Below 2% infected, 98% of India still vulnerable, says govt

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	The government on Tuesday said that it had managed to control the spread of Covid-19 in the country through its field efforts with just 1.8 per cent of the total population catching the virus so far, lower than many other countries including the US, France, Italy, Brazil, Russia and Germany.</div>
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	&ldquo;Despite the high number of cases we were able to contain the spread to under 2 per cent of the population. This should make us wary of protecting the 98 per cent population that is still vulnerable and susceptible,&rdquo; said Lav Agarwal, joint secretary, health ministry. The total number of Covid cases in India has crossed the 25-million mark and the number of deaths is at 278,719.&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/covid-crisis-below-2-infected-98-of-india-still-vulnerable-says-govt-121051900032_1.html" target="_blank">Read on...</a></strong></div>