India reported less than 20,000 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours (File)
India reported 16,862 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, 11 per cent lower than yesterday's 18,987 cases. The government has been continuously speeding up the vaccination drive across the country.
Here's your 10-point cheat-sheet to this story:
- At least 97.14 crore vaccine doses have been administered in India. The vaccinations will reach the 100 crore-mark any day now.
- The recovery rate is currently at 98.07 per cent, which is the highest since March last year.
- At least 19,391 people have recovered in the last 24 hours. The total number of people who have recovered is 3,33,82,100.
- Active cases account for less than 1 per cent of total cases, currently at 0.60 per cent, which is also the lowest since March 2020.
- The active caseload stands at 2,03,678, which is the lowest in 216 days.
- The weekly positivity rate of 1.42 per cent is less than 3 per cent for last 112 days.
- Daily positivity rate of 1.43 per cent is less than 3 per cent for the last 46 days.
- Some 379 people have died of Covid in the last 24 hours. During this period, the total vaccinations are 30,26,483.
- The country is opening up slowly with precautions. The festival season is here and experts have warned against people getting overconfident and not following safety rules.
- A third wave is the biggest concern now, especially after the devastating second wave of the pandemic that killed lakhs of people.
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