India reported 12,899 new infections in the last 24 hours, continuing its streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases, even as its overall tally of the country rose to 1,07,90,183, health officials said on Thursday.
For nearly a week, the country has recorded less than 15,000 new infections daily. Also, the daily Covid-19 death toll has been below the 300-mark for more than a month now.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that there were 107 more Covid-19 fatalities, taking the overall death toll to 1,54,703.
As per the Ministry’s data, there are 1,55,025 active cases at present after 17,824 patients were discharged in a day. Till now, 1,04,80,455 persons have been discharged so far.
The recovery rate has increased to 97.13 per cent, while the fatality rate is down to 1.43 per cent.
A total of 19,92,16,019 samples have been tested for Covid-19 up to February 3. Of these, 7,42,841 samples were tested on Wednesday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
As many as 44,49,552 corona vaccine doses have been administered in India since the drive began on January 16 after approval for ‘Covishield’ and ‘Covaxin’.
Here’s some more updates related to the virus:
*Arunachal Pradesh did not report any fresh COVID-19 case in the past 24 hours, a health department official said on Thursday.
*Jharkhand’s COVID-19 tally mounted to 1,18,839 as 46 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department official said on Thursday.
*Oxford University announced on Thursday it will launch a medical trial alternating doses of Covid-19 vaccines created by different manufacturers, the first study of its kind.
*The Indian Medical Association has expressed shock at the central government stating in Rajya Sabha that 162 doctors died due to coronavirus in the country.
*The Brazilian government is negotiating the purchase of 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses from Russia and India.
Meanwhile, the total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 104.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.26 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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