Covid: India logs 45,951 fresh Cases, 22% higher than yesterday

India reported 45,951 cases of the Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the country's cumulative Covid-19 infection tally to 30,362,848, the Union ministry of health and family welfare's dashboard showed. In the same period, 817 people succumbed due to the viral disease, taking the death toll to 398,454 or 1.31 % of the total infections.

According to the data, cumulatively 33.28 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under the Nationwide Vaccination Drive.

The active cases further declined to 5,37,064 comprising 1.77 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 96.92 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.

In terms of vaccination, 3,651,983 more doses were administered in the previous 24 hours, with the total number of doses administered thus far rising to 332,854,527.