New Delhi: India recorded 15,815 fresh infections in the past 24 hours. The recovery rate at 98.54 per cent accounted for 20,018 recuperations in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 4,35,93,112.
The daily positivity rate stood at 4.36 per cent. The number of active cases stood at 1,19,264 accounting for 0.27 per cent of the total number of cases. The active cases reported a drop of 4,271 in the last 24 hours. However, the mortality rate stood at 1.19 per cent recorded 68 fatalities taking the cumulative death toll to 5,26,996.
With the administration of 24,43,064 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 207.71 crore according to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
According to the health ministry, more than 198.61 crore (1,98,61,41,995) vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far through Govt. of India (free of cost channel) and through direct state procurement category. More than 7.17 Cr (7,17,26,040) balance and unutilized COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.