India continued its streak of reporting low number of coronavirus cases as the country added 11,610 new infections in the last 24 hours even as the overall tally mounted to 1,09,37,320, health officials said on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that there were 100 more Covid-19 fatalities, taking the overall death toll to 1,55,913.
The health ministry officials told on Tuesday that the average daily new infections for last 15 days are oscillating between 9,000 to 12,000 while the deaths between 78 to 120.
On February 9, India had reported 9,110 new cases, the lowest this year so far. Last year, the lowest 9,633 cases were recorded on June 3.
As per the Ministry’s data, there are 1,36,549 active cases at present after 11,833 patients were discharged in a day. Till now, 1,06,44,858 persons have been discharged so far.
The recovery rate has increased to 97.33 per cent, while the fatality rate is down to 1.43 per cent.
The ministry also informed that 6,44,931 samples were tested on Tuesday day. The cumulative tests done by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) so far stands at 20,79,77,229
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday gave a clear warning that unless people strictly to Covid-19 protocols, they should be prepared for another bout of lockdown in view of the increasing cases in the state.
Meanwhile, nearly 9 million (89,99,230) doses of corona vaccine doses have been administered in India since the drive began on January 16 after approval for ‘Covishield’ and ‘Covaxin’.
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Meanwhile, the total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 109.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.41 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.