New Delhi: India recorded 5,439 fresh infections in the past 24 hours. The recovery rate at 98.66 per cent accounted for 22,031 recuperations in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 4,38,25,024. The daily positivity rate stood at 1.70 per cent.
The number of active cases stood at 65,732 accounting for 0.15 per cent of the total number of cases. However, the mortality rate stood at 1.19 per cent taking the cumulative death toll to 5,27,799.
With the administration of 26,36,224 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 212.17 crore according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
According to the health ministry, more than 201.32 crore vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far through Govt. of India (free of cost channel) and through the direct state procurement category.
More than 5.89 Cr balance and unutilized COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs, it added.
In the last 24 hours, ICMR tested 3,20,418 infected samples. So far, 88.55 crore tests have been conducted.