LIVE new updates: India reports 3,095 coronavirus cases on Friday

India now has 15,208 active Covid19 cases having added 3095 fresh cases in the last 24-hours. One of the worst hit states Maharashtra reported 425 fresh cases on Friday, according to the public health department bulletin in the evening. This is almost 38 percent lower than Thursday’s count in the state. Maharashtra has screened 36,254 international passengers arriving at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports since December 24 out of the total 1628447 passengers arriving during this period. Around 43 people have tested RT-PCR positive. State capital Mumbai now has 937 Covid cases, while neighbouring Thane has 566 cases. Meanwhile, the Delhi government said on Thursday that it was prepared to fight the spike in Covid19 cases. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that they are conducting genome sequencing of all Covid cases, and around 7986 beds have been set aside for Covid patients. Delhi had recorded 295 fresh Covid cases on Thursday taking the active caseload to 932.