India Coronavirus Dispatch: Waiting time, Co-Win glitches hamper roll-out

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IN NUMBERS: Over 17,000 fresh cases reported

India reported 17,407 fresh coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking the cumulative caseload to 11,156,923, according to a report in the Scroll. Maharashtra accounted for nearly 10,000 of those infections. The country saw 89 new deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 157,435, according to central health ministry data. The active caseload is at 173,413, while the total recoveries have surged to 10,826,075. As many as 16,616,048 people have been inoculated since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Of these, 994,452 received their shots on Wednesday.