
India on Thursday recorded a slightly higher number of daily Covid cases as compared to the day before with 6,395 fresh infections, taking the overall tally so far to 44,478,636.
According to the Ministry of Health data, India’s Active Caseload currently stands at 50,342. Active cases now constitute 0.11% of the country’s total Positive Cases.
Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.70%. 6,614 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours and the cumulative tally of recovered patients (since the beginning of the pandemic) is now at 4,39,00,204.
The last 24 hours saw a total of 3,25,602 COVID-19 tests being conducted. India has so far conducted over 88.83 Cr (88,83,94,283) cumulative tests.
Weekly Positivity Rate in the country currently stands at 1.88% and the Daily Positivity rate is reported to be 1.96%.
India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 214.27 Cr (2,14,27,81,911) as per provisional reports till 7 am today.
COVID-19 vaccination for the age group 12-14 years was started on 16 March, 2022. So far, more than 4.05 Cr (4,05,38,183) adolescents have been administered with the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Similarly, the COVID-19 precaution dose administration for age group 18-59 years also started from 10th April, 2022 onwards.