Cases Of COVID-19 Infection In India Are Back To Craze, Daily Cases Print A Record Breaking 17,000

Illustrated COVID-19 from India. (Wikimedia Commons / Election Commission of India)

JAKARTA - Indian authorities announced that the country's COVID-19 infection cases had soared again, even setting a record for the highest daily addition since last February on Friday.

India's Ministry of Health said in a statement that the country recorded 17,336 cases of infection on Friday, making it the highest record since February 20.

"The daily number of deaths from COVID-19 increased by 13, bringing the total (from COVID-19 in the country) to 524,954", the ministry said.

India's richest state Maharashtra recorded more than 5,200 new infections on Wednesday, state authorities said, with 2,479 of them coming from the financial capital Mumbai.

It is known, that the daily infection cases of COVID-19 in India have experienced a rapid increase over the past month. The number announced on Friday saw an increase of more than 4,000 cases, compared to Thursday's reported 13,313 cases.

Last year, India became one of the epicenters of the spread of COVID-19, crippling the health system, with a spike in infections due to the Delta variant that began to be felt in April 2021.

In May last year, India India's daily infection cases hit a record high, reaching 414,188 cases. Meanwhile, a record of daily death was recorded in June last year, with 6,148 deaths in a day.