Covid LIVE: India records 18,795 cases, lowest single-day spike in 6 months

Nirma Devi, 31, and Phula Devi, 30, hold boxes containing Covishield vaccines as they pose for a picture at Malana village in Kullu district in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. Photo: Reuters

Coronavirus updates: India reported 179 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, the smallest rise since the middle of March, taking the total to 447,373. Infections rose by 18,795, the smallest increase since early March, lifting the total to about 33.7 million, health ministry data showed. So far, India has recorded 33,697,581 corona cases in total.

Delhi reported 32 Covid-19 cases and no fatality. Kerala recorded 11,699 new Covid-19 cases and Maharashtra 2,432 cases.

Black marketing during the second wave of Covid-19 meant that a large number of people had to pay a lot more than the actual rate to access health care facilities, a recent survey has found.

A survey of more than 24,000 individuals across the country by Local Circles said that the government should come up with a better mechanism to track the supply of Covid-related drugs, oxygen cylinders, and concentrators via unique identification so that the location of these products can be digitally tracked by manufacturers.

World coronavirus update: Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with 232,783,514 confirmed cases and 4,764,746 deaths across nearly 200 countries recorded since China reported its first cases in December 2019. The US remains the worst-hit country with 43,756,726 cases, followed by India, Brazil, UK and Russia.

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