India’s cumulative vaccination coverage nears 8 crore mark

Over 7 crore 91 lakh five thousand doses of Covid vaccine have been administered to the beneficiaries in the country so far. Union Health Ministry said that more than 16 lakh 38 thousand doses were given to the beneficiaries in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, a total number of one lakh 3 thousand 558 new cases have been reported in the country in the past 24 hours taking the cumulative positive cases to over one crore 25 lakh. The Health Ministry said, 478 deaths have also been reported during the last 24 hour taking the toll to one lakh 65 thousand 101 across the country.

The Ministry said the country’s COVID-19 recovery rate is at 92.80 per cent with the total recovery of more than 52 thousand 800 patients in the last 24 hours.

Over one crore 16 lakh patients have already been recovered from this disease. Presently, the total number of active cases in the country is over 7 lakh 41 thousand which comprises 5.89 per cent of the total positive cases.

The Indian Council of Medical Research said that various laboratories have conducted more than 8 lakh 93 thousand tests of corona virus samples during the last 24 hours and more than 24 crore 90 lakh tests have been conducted in the country so far.