India on Monday continued to see a drop in daily surge in coronavirus cases with 2,503 new infections, the lowest single-day rise in 680 days. The fresh surge takes the overall caseload to 4,29,93,494. Twenty-seven patients died and 4,377 recovered in the last 24 hours, the latest government data shows. With this, the overall death count and recoveries have climbed to 5,15,877 and 4,24,41,449, respectively.
The active cases have declined to 36,168, the lowest in 675 days. Pakistan recorded 3,116 infections along with 47 deaths and 5,559 recoveries on Sunday.
More than 5,000,000 samples have been tested for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours and the total testing figure is nearing 78 crores. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 5,32,232 samples were tested for the drug in the past 24 hours.
India’s vaccination coverage has exceeded the 180 crore-mark with 20,31,275 doses given in the last 24 hours. Of these, nearly nine crore teens – in the 15-18 age group – have been vaccinated and the precautionary dose has been administered to over 2.12 crore people.
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