Covid in India: The country saw a marginal increase in cases as India reported 50,040 new cases in the last 24 hours, with active cases coming down to 5,86,403. The recovery rate of the country has increased to 96.75 percent. Active cases now account for 1.94% of the total cases. A total of 2,92,51,029 recoveries across the country so far. 57,944 patients have been cured during the last 24 hours.
The number of people recovering daily for the 45th consecutive day is more than the daily new cases. The weekly positivity rate remains below 5%, currently at 2.91%. The daily positivity rate is 2.82%, which is less than 5% for 20 consecutive days.
No respite in Kerala as daily covid cases keep rising
The COVID-19 situation in Kerala remained critical on Saturday, with 12,118 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, health officials said.
Officials said the test positivity rate (TPR) in the state remained over 10 per cent.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said in a statement that the TPR for the day stood at 10.66 after 12,118 tested positive in the last 24 hours, while the active cases in the state rose to 1,01,102.
Meanwhile, 118 more patients succumbed to Covid, taking the toll to 12,817.
3,96,863 people were under observation at various places across the state, including 26,298 in hospitals.
85 new cases of Kovid were reported in Delhi, which is the lowest since April 19 last year.
The national capital on Saturday reported 85 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest since April 19 last year, with a positivity rate of 0.12 per cent, while nine people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours.
This is the second time in the past week that Delhi’s single-day tally fell below the 100 mark after June 21, when the national capital reported 89 cases.
With nine more deaths in the last 24 hours, Delhi’s total COVID death toll has risen to 24,961.
During the same period, 158 people have recovered from the disease, taking the total number of recoveries so far in the national capital to 14,07,116.
Delhi currently has 1,598 active cases, with the number of patients under home isolation below the 500 mark.
covid vaccination in india
The Center on Saturday told the Supreme Court that till June 25, over 31 crore COVID vaccine doses have been administered across the country, including over 1.73 crore doses to health care workers (HCWs).
It said that more than 2.66 crore doses have been given to frontline workers (FLWs), over 9.93 crore doses were given to persons in the age group of 45 to 59 years and over 8.96 crore doses to persons above 60 years of age. is.
Apart from these, more than 7.84 crore doses have been given to persons in the age group of 18 to 44 years, the government said.
“A total of 44.2 per cent of the people above the age of 45 years and 13 per cent of the population in the age group of 18-44 years have received the first dose of the vaccine,” the Center said in its affidavit filed in the apex court. In case of suo moto cognizance on COVID-19 management.
The Center, which granted status of COVID-19 vaccines administered from January to June 25, said that a total of 27.3 per cent of the eligible population (18 years and above) have received a single dose of the vaccine.
(with inputs from agencies)
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