<span style="color: #222222;">Health Ministry today said, Six States, Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat, are reporting a surge in daily new cases and they together account for 80.63 per cent  of the new cases reported in last 24 hours. Maharashtra continues to report the highest daily new cases at 31 thousand 855 . It is followed by Punjab with 2,613 while Kerala reported 2,456 new cases. Meanwhile Over 5  crore 31 lakh 45  thousand doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far. Union Health Ministry said that more than 23 lakh 62 doses were given to the beneficiaries  in the last 24 hours. The country's COVID-19 recovery rate is at 95.28 per cent and over one crore 12 lakh patients have already recovered from this disease.</span><br />