New Delhi, 15 July
India recorded an increase of 20,038 new coronavirus infections in a day, taking the number of cases to 4,37,10,027, while the number of active cases of the disease rose to 1,39,073, according to the data updated by the Union Health Ministry. Friday. happened. ,
Data updated at 8 am shows that the death toll due to the disease has risen to 5,25,604 with 47 new deaths.
The health ministry said active cases now account for 0.32 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has been recorded at 98.48 per cent.
The data showed that the country’s active Covid caseload has registered an increase of 2,997 cases in a span of 24 hours.
According to the ministry, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 4.44 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 4.30 per cent.
According to the data, the number of people cured of the disease rose to 4,30,45,350, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.20 per cent.
According to the ministry, 199.47 crore doses of vaccines have been given so far in the country under the nationwide COVID vaccination campaign.
Forty seven new people died due to this disease in the country – 20 from Kerala, five from West Bengal, four from Maharashtra, three from Punjab, two each from Assam, Bihar, Haryana and Uttarakhand and one each from Delhi, Goa. . , Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Nagaland and Sikkim.