Covid 19 Cases: 11,56,363 Covid tests were conducted in the last 24 hours
India reported 83,876 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, while the positivity rate dropped marginally to 7.25%. This is the first time since January 6 that India's daily Covid tally did not cross the 1-lakh mark.
Here are the top 10 updates on coronavirus in India:
- India's active caseload currently stands at 11,08,938.
- The active cases comprise 2.62 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 96.19 per cent, the ministry said.
- The positivity rate was recorded at 7.25 per cent. Positivity rate is the number of people that test positive for Covid out of every hundred tests conducted.
- The Drugs Controller General of India yesterday granted emergency-use approval to the single-show Sputnik Light vaccine. This is the 9th Covid vaccine approved in India.
- Physical classes for standard 9 to 12 resumed in five states after a decline in Covid cases.
- There were 1,99,054 recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the country's total recoveries to 4,06,60,202.
- India's weekly positivity rate stands at 9.18 per cent.
- Delhi reported 1,410 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, while the positivity rate in the national capital fell to 2.45 per cent.
- Maharashtra on Sunday reported 9,666 new coronavirus positive cases, taking the state's infection tally to 78,03,700, while the death of 66 persons took the death count to 1,43,074.
- Under its nationwide vaccination drive, India has administered 169.63 crore vaccine doses.
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