India records 45,352 new Covid-19 cases, 3.6% lower than yesterday

New Delhi: India on Friday registered 45,352 new Covid-19 cases due to the viral infection in the last 24 hours, according to the data released by Union Health Ministry.

So far, India has recorded 32,903,289 corona cases in total. The country also witnessed 366 deaths in the same time span, taking the death toll to 4,39,895.

The active caseload has also reported a substantial growth of 10,195 and stands at 3,99,778. The active cases account for 1.22 per cent of the total cases in India.

Of the 45,352 fresh Covid-19 infections and 366 deaths reported across the country in the last 24 hours, Kerala recorded 32,097 cases and 188 fatalities. Kerala has been reporting in excess of 30,000 daily cases for the past few days. The southern state's infection count now stands at 41,22,133 and deaths at 21,149.

At the same span of time, a total of 34,791 Covid patients were discharged, pushing the overall recoveries to 3,20,63,616. The recovery rate currently stands at 97.45 per cent.

According to the ministry's release, the weekly positivity rate is at 2.66 per cent, which is less than 3 per cent for the last 70 days. At the same time, the daily positivity rate is reported to be 2.72 per cent.

India's cumulative vaccination coverage has crossed the 67 crore landmark on Friday. With the administration of 74,84,333 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage figure stands at 67,09,59,968 as per the provisional reports of the Health Ministry. This has been achieved through 70,34,846 sessions.

The testing capacity across the country continues to be expanded. The last 24 hours saw a total of 16,66,334 tests being conducted. India has so far conducted 52,65,35,068 tests.

More than 65 crore vaccine doses have been provided to the States/UTs so far through the Government of India free of cost channel and through direct state procurement category.

Further, more than 1.20 crore doses are in the pipeline. Around 4,36,81,760 balance and unutilized Covid vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered, said the Health Ministry data released Friday morning.

(as per a report by IANS)