India reports 8,822 Covid cases in last 24 hours, 2,228 higher than yesterday
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New Delhi: India reported 8,822 Covid-19 cases with a jump of 2,228 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally of active caseload to over 53,637 the Union health ministry said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the country had reported 6,594 new infections across the country.
India's active COVID-19 caseload currently stands at 53,637, the Health Ministry said.
The daily positivity rate stands at 2 percent while the weekly positivity rate is at 2.35 percent. The national recovery rate was 98.66 percent. The cumulative Covid vaccine doses administered across India have exceeded 195.5 crores.
The Union government is concerned about the sharp spike in Covid cases and has directed states/UTs to follow robust genomic surveillance and track severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and influenza-like illness (ILI) cases in hospitals.
responsible for the active caseload of 3,177 Covid cases, Maharashtra has 18,267, while Kerala has over 16,278 active infections at present. Tamil Nadu has 1,632 active cases, Uttar Pradesh has 1510, while Karnataka has reported 3,882 active cases so far.
In the last 24 hours, more than 5,718 patients recovered from Covid. Since the onset of Covid, more than 4,26,67,088 people have recovered from Covid.
Under the Covid vaccination drive, more than 195.50 crore vaccine doses have been administered to people across the country so far. The central government has provided more than 193.53 crore vaccine doses to states/UTs while 13.40 crore vaccine doses are in balance and the unutilized vaccine are available to States and UTs.