NEW DELHI: Over six crore eighty seven lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered to the beneficiaries in the country so far.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has today informed that more than thirty six lakh seventy one thousand doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the country is witnessing continuous rise in daily new cases and deaths due to Covid-19. The Health Ministry informed that more than eighty one thousand new cases have been reported in the country in last 24 hours taking the cumulative positive cases to over one crore twenty three lakh.
However, a total of four hundred sixty nine deaths have been reported in the country within one day taking the toll to over one lakh sixty three thousand across the country. The active caseload is also continuously rising due to sudden spike in the cases reported from various States. At present, there are more than six lakh fourteen thousand active cases in the country which comprises five per cent of the total positive cases. Amid the rising new cases, the recovery rate has declined to 93.67 per cent.
The Ministry informed that more than fifty thousand people have recovered from the corona virus infection within 24 hours. So far, more than one crore fifteen lakh patients have recovered from this disease.
According to the Health Ministry, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh together account for over 80 per cent of the total active cases in the country.
