New Delhi: India reported 2,202 new cases in the last 24 hours when its deaths count rose to 27 from 13 a day before even as the Covid-19 cases in the country fell by around 20 percent in the week ending Sunday. After rising for four weeks running, fresh infections dipped substantially in Delhi-NCR.
Recoveries, deaths, and active cases account for 98.74 percent, 1.22 percent, and 0.04 percent of the overall caseload, as per official data.
The daily positivity rate and weekly positivity rate were recorded at 0.74 percent and 0.59 percent, respectively. Also, in the last 24 hours, 297,242 samples were tested for viral illness; overall, more than 840 million tests have been conducted thus far.
on the vaccination front, as many as 310,218 more doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered; with this, a total of 1.91 billion doses have been administered since January 16 last year, when the nationwide inoculation drive commenced.
On Sunday, Delhi recorded 613 daily infections and three deaths, while the corresponding figures for Maharashtra were 255 and one. Mumbai, Maharashtra’s capital and the country’s financial giant, accounted for 151 of the state’s new cases and the lone death.
(Vinayak)