India's COVID-19 tally increased to 4,30,06,080 on Saturday with 2,075 fresh infections, while the active cases declined further to 27,802, according to Union health ministry data.
The death count due to the viral disease climbed to 5,16,352 with 71 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.73 per cent, the health ministry said.
A reduction of 1,379 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.56 per cent and the weekly positivity rate stood at 0.41 per cent, the ministry said.
The last 24 hours saw a total of 3,70,514 COVID-19 tests being conducted. India has so far conducted over 78.22 crore tests, it said.
Here are the highlights on Coronavirus cases in India:
Delhi on Saturday reported 61 fresh COVID-19 cases and one death, while the positivity rate stood at 0.68 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.
With 61 fresh cases, the national capital's case count increased to 18,63,694 while the death toll rose to 26,146, the latest health bulletin stated.
Ladakh reported five fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the health department of the Union Territory informed on Saturday.
Further, as may as 12 patients have been discharged in last 24 hours who were infected with this virus.
The union territory of Puducherry logged five fresh coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours pushing the overall caseload to 1,65,771, a senior Health department official said on Saturday.
The five new cases were identified at the end of the examination of 329 samples, Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a release. While Puducherry reported four infections, Mahe logged the remaining one.
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South Korea has reached two seemingly contradictory pandemic milestones: It recorded more than 600,000 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, the most of anywhere in the world. At the same time, the country has one of the lowest virus death rates globally.
While anywhere else an infection surge of this size would signal an out-of-control outbreak soon to be followed by a spike in fatalities, in South Korea -- which is about the size of Indiana -- the picture is more complex.
China reported two Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, its first in more than a year, underlining the threat posed by an Omicron outbreak that has triggered the country's highest case counts since the pandemic's outset.
The National Health Commission said both deaths occurred in Jilin, the northeastern province which has been hardest-hit by a nationwide rise in cases that has prompted lockdowns or tight restrictions in several cities.
The deaths were the first reported in mainland China since January 2021, and bring the country's total death toll in the pandemic to 4,638.
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Pakistan reported 483 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Saturday.
According to NCOC, a total of 39,067 samples were tested, out of which 483 turned out to be positive, ARY News reported.
The nationwide COVID-19 test positivity ratio remained 1.23 per cent, according to the NCOC data.
The vaccination drive against coronavirus for the children in the age group of 12 to 14 years will begin in Madhya Pradesh on March 23 for which 30 lakh doses of Corbevax vaccine have been received, a senior health official said on Saturday.
The national vaccination drive for the children in the 12-14 age group began on March 16. The health official had then said that the drive will begin in MP after March 22 once necessary training is given to the frontline staff.
Odisha recorded 72 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the Health Department said.
The daily positivity rate was 0.18 per cent and 15 children were among the newly-infected, it said.
The new cases were detected after testing 44,268 samples, it added.
The state had logged 79 infections on Friday.
The death count remained at 9,106 as no new deaths were reported in the last two days.
Hong Kong's COVID-19 case count surpassed 1 million on Friday, amid the fifth and the worst wave of the disease.
As many as 20,082 new COVID-19 infections were reported in the city on Friday, of which 12,116 were identified through rapid tests, Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported.
As of Thursday, Hong Kong reported 996,862 COVID-19 infections and 5,136 people lost their lives to its fifth-wave COVID-19 outbreak, according to Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
India's COVID-19 tally increased to 4,30,06,080 on Saturday with 2,075 fresh infections, while the active cases declined further to 27,802, according to Union health ministry data.
The death count due to the viral disease climbed to 5,16,352 with 71 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.73 per cent, the health ministry said.
A reduction of 1,379 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.56 per cent and the weekly positivity rate stood at 0.41 per cent, the ministry said.
The last 24 hours saw a total of 3,70,514 COVID-19 tests being conducted. India has so far conducted over 78.22 crore tests, it said.
Delhi reported 140 fresh COVID-19 cases and zero death due to the viral disease on Friday, while the positivity rate was recorded at 0.43 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.
With this, the national capital's Covid case count increased to 18,63,633, while the death count due to the disease stood at 26,145, according to the latest health bulletin issued by the department.
The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago was 32,444, the bulletin said.
Amid a resurgence of Covid cases across Southeast Asia and Europe, the government on Thursday warned states not to let their guard down and advised them to continue focus on the five-fold strategy of "test, track, treat, follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and vaccinate" while resuming economic and social activities in their jurisdiction.
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, in his letter to all states and union territories, also asked them to ensure adequate testing of samples to ensure timely detection of new variants and also to motivate people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Read here
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Tamil Nadu logged 61 new COVID-19 cases and zero deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the state health department on Friday.
With this, the active cases of COVID-19 in the state stood at 730.
As per data in the state government's COVID-19 bulletin, 127 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative recoveries to 34,13,521.
In the last 24 hours, as per the state bulletin, 38,500 COVID tests were conducted in the state.
Tamil Nadu has 335 COVID-19 testing facilities. Of these 69 are government-run and 266 are privately owned.
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