Union Health Ministry of family and welfare said that India has recorded 32,906 new coronavirus infections. The total number of active cases in India is 30,907,282 now. Yesterday, India has registered 2,020 new death taking the death toll to 41,07,84.
The active cases went down further to 4,32,778 and now comprise 1.46 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has increased to 97.22 per cent. A decrease of 1,81,21 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The Union Health Ministry’s data stated that The number of people who have recuperated from the coronavirus disease increased to 3,00,63,720 and the case fatality rate stands at 1.32 per cent. As many as 17,40,325 tests were conducted on Monday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of Covid-19 in the country to 43,40,58,138, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.
India has started its vaccination drive in January. To date, 37,73,52,501 vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. The health ministry said that more than 39.46 crores of Covid-19 vaccine doses have been provided to states and Union Territories.
The ministry further informed, “More than 39.46 Cr vaccine doses were provided to States/UTs. More than 1.91 Cr balance & unutilized doses still available with States/UTs & private hospitals to be administered. The total consumption including wastages is 37,55,38,390 doses (as per data available at 8 am today),”
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