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10:29 AM IST: Five Covid-19 patients, including a woman, died at a private hospital in Roorkee in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district allegedly due to disruption in oxygen supply to the facility for around 30 minutes. The incident occurred in the early hours on Wednesday when oxygen supply to the hospital remained disrupted between 1.30 and 2 am, a doctor at the hospital said.
09:58 AM IST: India on Wednesday registered 3,82,315 new Covid-19 cases and 3780 deaths in the last 24 hours. The top five states which have registered maximum cases are Maharashtra with 51,880 cases, followed by Karnataka with 44,631 cases, Kerala with 37,190 cases, Uttar Pradesh with 25,770 cases and Tamil Nadu with 21,228 cases. Around 47.26 per cent of the new cases are reported from these five states, with Maharashtra alone responsible for 13.57 percent of the new cases. Maximum casualties were reported in Maharashtra (891), followed by Uttar Pradesh with 351 daily deaths.