India's active coronavirus cases continued to decline with 23,067 fresh COVID-19 infections recorded in the past day with 336 deaths. The country's cumulative Covid case count now stands at 1.01 crore with 1,47,096 deaths. The daily infections were 6.6 per cent lower than yesterday's. With an average of 20,000 cases a day, it took India - world's only other country after US with more than a crore Covid cases. In this period, however, the country has consistently logged more recoveries than new cases taking the number of those being treated for COVID-19 down to 2.81 lakh - almost 3 per cent of the tally.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that the Indian vaccine against COVID-19, Covaxin, has drawn global attention.
In a tweet, the ICMR said, "India's indigenous vaccine against #COVID19 Covaxin-a product of ICMR-Bharat Biotech collaboration, achieves remarkable feat. Data generated from within India underlines impressive safety and immunogenicity profile of Covaxin and sparks Lancet's interest in publishing them."