India registered a slight upward tick in the Covid-19 graph with 1,086 new cases in the last 24 hours. The cumulative coronavirus caseload now stands at 43,030,925. New infections breached the 1,000 mark after two straight days of reporting new cases.
The death toll climbed to 5,21,487 with 71 fatalities in the past one day. India’s active cases dipped to 11,871, comprising only 0.03 per cent of the total infections. The national Covid-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent.
A total of 15,49,699 vaccine doses were administered to the eligible groups in the last 24 hours. India has primarily been administering Serum Institute’s Covishield, Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin and Russia’s Sputnik as vaccines against the deadly coronavirus disease.
India’s Covid-19 tally had surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19, 2020. The country crossed the milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. After a period of downward trend, the country witnessed a third wave in January 2022 fuelled by the highly-transmissible Omicron variant.
