India Coronavirus Dispatch: Why is Maharashtra seeing a spike in cases?

India's wedding season is a worry and its digital to track vaccinations has glitches: That is in news about the country's fight against Covid-19

IN NUMBERS: Nearly 13,000 fresh cases reported

India reported 12,881 fresh coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,09,50,201, according to a report in the Scroll. The country saw 101 deaths, taking the death toll to 1,56,014, according to central health ministry data. Total recoveries have surged to 1,06,56,845. The national recovery rate is at 97.32 per cent. The active caseload is at 1,37,342, which makes up 1.25 per cent of the total caseload. About 9.4 million healthcare and frontline workers have been inoculated since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Read more