Covid Highlights: The overall death count to date stands at 5,30,739 in India.
India saw a single day rise of 93 coronavirus infections, while the active cases have declined to 1,842, according to Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The total tally of Covid cases is 4.46 crore (4,46,82,530) and the death count stands at 5,30,739, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The daily positivity has been recorded at 0.07 per cent while the weekly positivity is 0.08 per cent, it stated.
The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has increased to 98.81 per cent, according to the health ministry's website.
There has been a decrease of 54 cases in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours, the data stated.
Here are updates on coronavirus situation in the country
Chhattisgarh Records One New Covid Case; Active Tally Stands at FourChhattisgarh on Saturday reported one COVID-19 case at a positivity rate of 0.14 per cent, taking the tally to 11,77,777, an official said. The death count and recovery remain unchanged at 14,146 and 11,63,627, respectively, while the active caseload was four, he said.
Maharashtra Records 17 New Covid Cases, No Deaths
Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 17 new coronavirus cases that raised the tally of infections to 81,37,120, an official from the state health department said. The death count remained unchanged at 1,48,421, while the count of recoveries reached 79,88,619 after 18 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the official said.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
The country crossed four crore cases on January 25 last year.
According to its website, 220.38 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered, so far, under the nationwide vaccination drive.
There has been a decrease of 54 cases in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours, the data stated.
The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has increased to 98.81 per cent, according to the health ministry's website.
The daily positivity has been recorded at 0.07 per cent while the weekly positivity is 0.08 per cent, it stated.
93 Covid Cases In India In 24 Hours
India saw a single day rise of 93 coronavirus infections, while the active cases have declined to 1,842, according to Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The total tally of Covid cases is 4.46 crore (4,46,82,530) and the death toll stands at 5,30,739, the data updated at 8 am stated.
Antibodies against coronavirus 'coldspots' discovered, may fight future coronaviruses: StudyScientists have discovered regions on the coronavirus which do not change, or 'coldspots', and that antibodies specific for these coldspots may help fight future coronaviruses, reported news PTI quoting a new study.
The coronavirus keeps evolving, and in so doing it evades our immune defenses. But does the entire coronavirus evolve, or do some portions remain unchanged? According to the study, sieving through over 10 million coronavirus sequences, two PhD students at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Switzerland and affiliated with the Università della Svizzera italiana, discovered that some portions of the virus spike, or the molecule on the virus that is key to infect human cells, were remarkably conserved.