Coronavirus Live Updates: Devotees gathered in Haridwar on the last day of ‘Shraddha’, openly breaking Covid norms; Mizoram Covid cases break 1L mark, positivity rate now at 15.36%

In Brahmakund, people started offering tarpan and pind daan for their ancestors from Wednesday morning itself. Huge crowds gather at the Narayani Shila Temple where it is believed that praying for ancestors is especially auspicious.

Meanwhile, Mizoram crossed the one lakh-mark on Wednesday with 1,471 people testing positive for the virus, health officials said on Wednesday, even as the four-member multi-disciplinary central team now clocked 15.36 per cent. is studying the alarming positivity rate of the virus, health officials said on Wednesday. According to health officials, so far 1,01,327 people tested positive for Covid-19 and 336 people have succumbed to the disease, taking the recovery rate of the hill state to 94.80 per cent, which is higher than the national average of 97.94 per cent.

However, Mizoram’s COVID mortality rate is 0.33 per cent as against the national average of 1.33 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data, which is the lowest among all states in the country. With a population of just 11 lakh, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh, the northeastern state had 15,006 active cases on Wednesday evening, while 85,925 men and women have so far recovered from the infectious disease.

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