Drop In Covid Cases As India Reports 38,628 Fresh Infections And 617 Deaths In Last 24 Hrs

The Union Health Ministry said that 617 Covid-related deaths took place in the last 24 hours, pushing the Death toll to 4,27,371. India’s Active Caseload today stands at 4,12,153

India Corona Cases Today

New Delhi: After reporting over 44,000 cases of Coronavirus on Thursday, India recorded 38,628 cases on Friday. The Union Health Ministry in its health bulletin said that 617 Covid-related deaths took place in the last 24 hours, pushing the Death toll to 4,27,371. The central government has claimed that less than 50,000 Daily New Cases have been reported since forty-one consecutive days.

Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,10,55,861 people have already recovered from COVID-19 and 40,017 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours. This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 97.37%.

India’s Active Caseload today stands at 4,12,153 and active cases now constitute 1.29% of the country's total Positive Cases.

• Total cases: 3,18,95,385 
• Active cases: 4,12,153  
• Total recoveries: 3,10,55,861   
• Death toll: 4,27,371  
• Total vaccination: 50,10,09,609 (49,55,138 in last 24 hrs) 

With substantially ramped up testing capacity across the country, a total of 17,50,081 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country. Cumulatively, India has conducted over 47.83 crore (47,83,16,964) tests so far.

While on one side testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, Weekly Positivity Rate currently stands at 2.39% and the Daily Positivity rate stands at 2.21% today. Daily Positivity rate remains below 3% for last 12 days and below 5% for 61 consecutive days now.

India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage achieved a significant milestone of 50 Cr yesterday. Cumulatively, 50,10,09,609 vaccine doses have been administered through 58,08,344 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today. 49,55,138 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours. 

According the the Union health ministry, 22,93,781 beneficiaries in the age group of 18-44 years were administered the first dose, while 4,32,281 received the second dose of the vaccine on Friday.