India has registered 16,862 fresh COVID-19 cases, in the last 24-hour, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in latest update. In the same time span, 19,391 recoveries and 379 deaths, the Ministry added.
The total cases in the country reached 3,40,37,592. Of these, India has 2,03,678 active cases. Since the onset of the pandemic, 3,33,82,100 recoveries from the virus have been reported. Consequently, the recovery rate is 98.07 per cent.
The death toll in the country mounted to 4,51,814.
Meanwhile, in the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 vaccination, 97,14,38,553 vaccine doses have been administered to the eligible beneficiaries. Of these, 30,26,483 hours.
As per data shared by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Friday, over 11 lakh samples were tested in the last 24 hours with which the total tests conducted so far crossed 58.88 crores.
While the testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, the weekly positive at 1.42 per cent has remained less than 3 per cent for the last 112 days now. The daily positivity rate stands at 1.43 per cent. The daily positivity rate has remained below 3 per cent for last 46 days and below 5 per cent for 129 consecutive days now.
More than 10.53 crore balance and unutilised doses are still available to be administered, the Health Ministry said.
