India reports less than 20,000 daily new cases of Covid-19 since past 7 days: Centre
New Delhi/IBNS: The ongoing trend of contraction of India’s daily new cases continues with the country recording less than 20,000 daily new cases since the last 7 days, the Union Health Ministry stated on Thursday
In the last 24 hours, only 16,946 persons were found to be infected with COVID in India.
In the same period, India also registered 17,652 new recoveries ensuring a net decline of 904 cases in the active caseload.
Daily deaths in India are on a sustained decline with less than 300 daily deaths being registered for the last 20 days.
India’s case fatality rate stands at 1.44% as of date. 22 States/UTs have cases fatality rate less than the national average.
The active caseload of the country stands at 2,13,603.
Meanwhile, the country is geared up for the massive Covid-19 vaccination drive beginning from Jan 16.
The full initial procurement amount of 1.65 crore doses of Covishield and Covaxin vaccines against Covid-19 have been allocated to all States/UTs in the proportion of health care workers database.
States have been advised to organize vaccination sessions taking into account 10% reserve/wastage doses and an average of 100 vaccinations per session per day.
The states and UTs have also been advised to increase the number of vaccination session sites that would be operational every day in a progressive manner as the vaccination process stabilizes and moves forward.
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