India is now recovering from the third wave of the country as in the last 24 hours the cases dropped below the one lakh mark for the first time, after almost a month.
In the last 24-hour, as many as 83,876 new coronavirus cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The country also reported 1,99,054 recoveries and 895 deaths in the 24-hour period.
With this, the active caseload in the country reached 11,08,938. At present, Kerala (3,30,105) has the highest number of active COVID-19 cases followed by Maharashtra (1,22,015) and Tamil Nadu (1,21,828).
A daily positivity rate of 7.25 per cent was recorded as 11,56,363 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the weekly COVID-19 positivity rate remained at 9.18 per cent.
In India, as many as 5,02,874 people have succumbed to the coronavirus infection so far including 895 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The cumulative recoveries stand at 4,06,60,202 while the recovery rate is at 96.19 per cent.
Meanwhile, on the vaccination front, India administered more than 14.70 lakh doses (14,70,053) COVID vaccine doses in the last 24 hours. With this, the country’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 169.63 crore (1,69,63,80,755) as per provisional reports till 7 am today.
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 394.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.73 million and vaccinations to over 10.05 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.
