India on Saturday saw a slight rise in daily Covid-19 cases with the country recording 7,219 fresh infections in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data. Yesterday, the country had logged over 6,000 Covid-19 cases.
In India, the active caseload is also witnessing a downward journey from the past few days. Currently, India has 56,745 active cases, while the country had more than 59,000 active infections yesterday.
According to the Ministry, 9,651 COVID patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries in the country to 4,38,65,016. The recovery rate currently stands at 98.68 per cent.
The overall COVID death toll rose to 5,27,965 with 33 fatalities in the last 24 hours, which includes eight deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
As many as 3,64,886 COVID samples were tested in the last 24 hours. The weekly case positivity rate came out to be 2.42 per cent. A total of 88.68 crore samples have been tested in the country so far.
Under the nationwide vaccination drive, 25,83,815 doses of COVID vaccines were administered during this period taking the total number of vaccine doses jabbed so far to 213.01 crore.
India’s COVID-19 infection tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5, 50 lakh on September 16, 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and the one-crore mark on December 19, 2020.
The country crossed the grim milestones of two crore cases on May 4, 2021, three crore on June 23, 2021 and four crore on January 25 this year.
