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COVID-19: India's daily positivity rate stands at 2.61 percent, active caseload delines
New Delhi: India has reported less than 40,000 (39,796) daily new cases in the last 24 hours, as per data released by the Ministry of Health.
Less than 50,000 Daily New Cases have been reported since eight continuous days.
This is a result of sustained and collaborative efforts by the Centre and the States/UTs.
In the last 24 hours, 553 peope died to the infectitious disease.
India has also been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload. The country’s Active Caseload today stands at 4,82,071, read a government statement.
A net decline of 3,279 is witnessed in the last 24 hours and active cases are now only 1.58% of the country's total Positive Cases.
India’s cumulative vaccination coverage exceeded 35.28 crore yesterday.
A total of 35,28,92,046 vaccine doses have been administered through 46,34,986 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today. 14,81,583 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
The new phase of universalization of COVID19 vaccination commenced from June 21, 2021.
"The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID19 vaccination throughout the country," read the statement.
As more people are getting recovered from COVID-19 infection, India’s Daily Recoveries continue to outnumber the Daily New Cases for 53 consecutive days now. 42,352 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours.
More than 2,000 (2,556) recoveries were reported during the last 24 hours as compared to the daily new cases.
Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,97,00,430 people have already recovered from COVID-19 and 42,352 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours.
This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 97.11%, which is showing a sustained increasing trend.
With substantially ramped up testing capacity across the country, a total of 15,22,504 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country.
Cumulatively, India has conducted over 41.97 crore (41,97,77,457) tests so far.
While on one side testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, a continued decline in weekly case positivity is noticed.
Weekly Positivity Rate is currently at 2.40% while the Daily Positivity rate stands at 2.61% today.
Daily Positivity rate has remained less than 5% for 28 consecutive days now.
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