New Delhi: India on Tuesday again registered an increase in the number of Kovid 19 cases after crossing the 1000 mark of infection. The country has reported 1,088 new COVID-19 cases in India in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Health Ministry.
With this, India’s active cases currently stand at 10,870, which comprises 0.03 per cent of the total infections.
The daily positivity rate is 0.25 percent. The recovery rate currently stands at 98.76 per cent with 1,081 being cured in the last 24 hours, while the total number of recoveries so far is 4,25,05,410, informed the health ministry on Wednesday.
A total of 186.07 crore vaccine doses have been given so far under the nationwide vaccination campaign, the health bulletin said.
According to the ministry, more than 191.19 crore vaccine doses were provided to states and union territories, while more than 19.88 crore remaining and unused vaccine doses are still available to states and union territories.
Meanwhile, a total of 79.49 crore tests have been conducted so far with 4,29,323 tests done in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra
Maharashtra recorded 113 fresh coronavirus cases on Tuesday, up from 72 a day earlier and four deaths linked to the infection, while 127 patients were cured, the health department said.
With these additions, the state’s total COVID-19 tally rose to 78,75,324, while the death toll rose to 1,47,820, the department said in a bulletin.
Gujarat
According to a PTI report, the number of students diagnosed with coronavirus at the Gujarat National Law University in Gandhinagar has gone up to 64 in the last six days after nine more students tested positive.
Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation health medical officer Dr Kalpesh Goswami said the infected are all university students, who met physically for the first time since the resumption of offline classes on April 4.
Goswami said none of them required hospitalization and all were kept in isolation at the institute’s hostel, with three teams monitoring their health.
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