India Covid-19 Cases: At least 2,13,246 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
India reported 1,07,474 new Covid cases today, 16% lower than yesterday. The positivity rate fell to 7.42 %. The active cases constitute 2.90 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate decreased to 95.91 per cent.
There were 865 new Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours. The death count from COVID-19 crossed 500,000 on Friday.
At least 2,13,246 recoveries in the last 24 hours took the total number of recoveries to 4,04,61,148.
The daily Covid positivity rate stands at 7.42 per cent while the weekly positivity rate stands at 10.20 per cent.
The new cases were recorded after 14,48,513 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. A total of 74.01 crore Covid tests have been conducted in India till now.
Nearly 169 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have so far been administered in the country, the health ministry said. Over 42 lakh (42,95,142) vaccine doses were administered till 7 pm on Friday.
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Ladakh's COVID-19 caseload increased to 26,821 on Sunday as 111 more people tested positive for the viral disease. The death count remained unchanged at 226. As many as 165 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from COVID-19. With this, the total number of recoveries in Ladakh has gone up to 25,570.There are 1,025 active cases in the union territory. The positivity rate stands at 4.2 per cent.
Puducherry witnessed a slide in the number of daily COVID-19 cases with 279 fresh infections reported on Sunday taking the total caseload in the Union Territory to 1,64,186.
On Saturday, the UT had registered 344 coronavirus cases.
There are 4,152 active cases in the UT with 96 patients admitted in hospitals taking treatment while the remaining 4,056 patients are recovering in home isolation.
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India reported 1,07,474 new Covid cases today, 16% lower than yesterday. The positivity rate fell to 7.42 %. The active cases constitute 2.90 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate decreased to 95.91 per cent.
There were 865 new Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours. The death count from COVID-19 crossed 500,000 on Friday.
At least 2,13,246 recoveries in the last 24 hours took the total number of recoveries to 4,04,61,148.
The daily Covid positivity rate stands at 7.42 per cent while the weekly positivity rate stands at 10.20 per cent.
The new cases were recorded after 14,48,513 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. A total of 74.01 crore Covid tests have been conducted in India till now.
Nearly 169 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have so far been administered in the country, the health ministry said. Over 42 lakh (42,95,142) vaccine doses were administered till 7 pm on Friday.
With the addition of 389 new cases of coronavirus, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 7,05,426, while four more fatalities have pushed the death count to 11,817 on Sunday.
COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 1.67 per cent.
India crossed the grim milestone of 5 lakh COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, becoming the third country in the world to do so after the US and Brazil.
The country took 217 days to reach 5 lakh deaths from 4 lakh recorded on July 1 last year, the longest time taken to record 1 lakh fatalities. India was hit by a devastating second wave in April-May last year.
The country's deaths had crossed three lakh-mark on May 23 and two lakh-mark on April 27. The deaths went past one lakh on October 2, 2020.
Schools, colleges and coaching institutes in Delhi can re-open from Monday, the Delhi government decided in a meeting today. The Delhi Disaster Management Authority, or DDMA, also allowed gyms, swimming pools and spas to re-open next week.
The duration of night curfew has been reduced by an hour; it's now from 11 pm to 5 am. Earlier, night curfew started from 10 pm.
Schools can re-open in phases - Classes 9 to 12 can run from February 7 - and teachers who aren't vaccinated can't take classes. Classes from nursery to 8 will resume from February 14, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
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