India Coronavirus Dispatch: 180 deaths after inoculation until March

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Nearly 132,000 fresh cases reported in another record rise

India reported 131,968 fresh coronavirus infections on Friday, taking the cumulative caseload to 130 million, according to a report in the Scroll. This is yet another record rise in daily infections. The country saw 780 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 167,642, according to central health ministry data. The active caseload is at 979,608. As many as 94 million shots have been administered since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Of these, 3.6 million were given on Thursday. Read more here

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