Covid-19 Update: India Logs Lesser Cases Today, Lowest in 7 Months

Almost 1,835 lesser cases were reported on Sunday compared to 15,981 infections on Saturday.

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New Delhi: India logged 14,146 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the lowest in more than seven months taking the country’s tally to 34,067,719, according to the ministry of health and family welfare. As many as 19,788 patients of Covid-19 recovered and 144 others succumbed to the viral disease in the same period. With this, the cumulative count of recoveries and deaths has touched 33,419,749 and 452,124 respectively.

Almost 1,835 lesser cases were reported on Sunday compared to 15,981 infections on Saturday. The death toll on Sunday has also gone down compared to 166 deaths recorded a day earlier.

Meanwhile, Covid-19 recovery rate is at 98.10 per cent, the highest since March, the health ministry said, adding the daily positivity rate, which is at 1.29 per cent currently, has been less than 3 per cent for the last 48 days.

Kerala on Friday reported 8,867 new Covid-19 cases after 79,554 samples were tested with a test positivity rate (TPR) of 11.14%, the state health ministry said. 

The state, which is witnessing torrential rains and floods, has total active cases at 97630. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 590,935,381 samples have been tested for Covid-19 so far of which 1,100,123 were tested in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, 976,589,540 vaccine doses have been administrered to beneficiaries of which 694,733,920 have received the first dose and the remaining 281,855,620 are fully vaccinated. More than 4.12 million doses were administered in the last 24 hours.

The health ministry said on Saturday that 1.01 billion vaccines have been provided to states and Union Territories through the Centre's (free of cost channel) and direct state procurement category.

“More than 104.2 million balance and unutilized vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered,” the ministry added.