NEW DELHI : The Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya held a press conference to review the Covid situation in the country.
As cases during the third wave have started to decline in the country, the health ministry informed that people in the age group of 44 years were found to be infected most during the third coronavirus wave that engulfed the country.
They also informed that during the last waves it was the age group of 55 year old who got most infected with the Delta variant.
The Delta variant took away a number of lives during the second wave. With 1,72,433 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's total tally of cases increased to over 41,803,318, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.