Employees work on a syringe production line in Faridabad, Haryana, on March 11, 2021. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)
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Mar 13, 2021
India saw nearly 25,000 new Covid-19 cases in the 24-hour period reported by the Ministry of Health at 8 am on March 13. That is the highest since Dec. 24, 2020, and has sent the active case load in the country back over 2 lakh.
As many as 16,39,663 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose and 4,13,874 such people received the second shot on Friday, the Press Trust of India reported.