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India's active caseload of COVID-19 cases is at 4,54,118. The active cases constitute 1.47 per cent of the total cases. Read full story
New Delhi: India reported 41,506 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.
India's active caseload of COVID-19 cases is at 4,54,118. The active cases constitute 1.47 per cent of the total cases.
The country also reported 895 deaths due to COVID-19 and with that, the cumulative fatalities in the country due to viral infection reached 4,08,040.
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Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,99,75,064 patients have already recovered from COVID-19 and 45,254 recovered in the last 24 hours.
This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 97.20 per cent, which is showing a sustained increasing trend.
The weekly positivity rate also remained below 5 per cent and is currently at 2.32 per cent. Further, the daily positivity rate is at 2.25 per cent, less than 3 per cent for 20 consecutive days.
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The testing capacity in the country has been substantially ramped up with 43.08 cr tests conducted so far.
India commenced its COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16 this year. Till date, 37,60,32,586 vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. (ANI)