India Records Lowest Covid Tally After 75 Days; 60K New Cases, 2,726 Deaths In Last 24 Hrs

The recruitment for the clinical trial of the country’s first indigenously-developed Covid vaccine Covaxin, among children falling in the age group of 6-12 years will begin at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) over concerns of third wave. India has recorded lowest daily spike in cases after 75 days.

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Covid In India: Maintaining the downward trend, India has recorded the lowest spike in Covid cases after 75 days.

The country reports 60,471 new COVID 19 cases, 1,17,525 discharges & 2726 deaths in the last 24 hrs, as per Union Health Ministry.

Total cases: 2,95,70,881

Total discharges: 2,82,80,472

Death toll: 3,77,031

Active cases: 9,13,378

Total Vaccination: 25,90,44,072

The Indian Council of Medical Research said that 38,13,75,984 samples tested for COVID 19, up to 14th June 2021. Of these, 17,51,358 samples were tested yesterday. 

Maharashtra

Maharashtra saw the number of new Covid infections in the state drop below 10,000 after several months. The state, one of the states hardest hit by the second Covid-19 wave, recorded 8,129 cases new cases on Monday, as per Maharashtra Public Health Department. The state had registered 10,442 new cases on Sunday.

Daily recovery rate in the state stood at 14,732, higher than the daily addition to the tally of Covid cases. So far, 56,54,003 Covid patients have been discharged from after full recovery, putting the Maharashtra's recovery rate at 95.55 per cent.

Karnataka

Ranking second after Maharashtra on the Covid tracker, deaths due to the infection crossed the 33,000-mark across Karnataka on Sunday, including 15,319 in Bengaluru alone, the state health bulletin said on Monday.

"With 120 people, including 12 in Bengaluru, succumbing to the infection during the day, the state's death toll shot up to 33,033 and the city's toll to 15,319 since the pandemic broke out in mid-March a year ago," said the bulletin.

With 6,835 new cases registered on Sunday, the state's Covid tally increased to 27,71,969, including 1,72,141 active cases, while 25,66,774 recovered from the disease, with 15,409 patients getting discharged in the last 24 hours, the bulletin said.

As the epicentre of the pandemic in the state, Bengaluru reported 1,470 fresh cases on Sunday, taking its Covid tally to 11,98,158, including 85,044 active cases, while recoveries rose to 10,97,794, with 2,409 patients getting discharged during the day.

The recruitment for the clinical trial of the country’s first indigenously-developed Covid vaccine –– Covaxin, among children falling in the age group of 6-12 years will begin at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, from Tuesday, PTI reported. This will be followed by the clinical trial of 2-6 years’ children. The enrolment of children volunteers aged 12-18 years at the AIIMS has been completed and they have already been given the first dose of Covaxin.