NEW DELHI: More than 54 lakh 16 thousand frontline health workers have been administered Covid-19 vaccines in the country so far.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has informed that a total number of four lakh 57 thousand 404 people have been inoculated with Covid-19 doses in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 recovery rate reached 97.19 per cent with the total recovery of more than 14 thousand four hundred 88 patients within 24 hours. The Ministry said, more than one crore five lakh patients have already been recovered from this disease. Active cases of Covid-19 are on a continuous declining trajectory in the country. According to the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, there are one lakh 48 thousand 590 active cases in the country which comprises only 1.37 per cent of the total positive cases. A total number of 11 thousand 713 new cases have been reported in the country in the past 24 hours taking the cumulative positive cases to over one crore eight lakh. The Health Ministry said, 95 deaths have been reported within 24 hours taking the toll to over one lakh 54 thousand across the country.
The Indian Council of Medical Research said that various laboratories have conducted more than seven lakh 40 thousand tests of corona virus samples in the last 24 hours. More than 20 crore tests have been done in the country so far.