India added 1,033 new COVID -19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Thursday. With the new cases, the active caseload stands at 11,639 which accounts for 0.03 per cent of the country’s total positive cases.
Meanwhile, 1,222 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 4,24,98,789. The current recovery rate is at 98.76 per cent and the daily positivity rate is at 0.21 per cent.
India’s tally of number of overall cases reached 4,30,31,958, while the total number of deaths reached 5,21,530, the government said today.
India’s first case of Coronavirus variant XE was reported in Mumbai today, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has said in a media release.
Official sources from the union health ministry, however, disagreed, saying the present evidence does not suggest that it is XE variant.
“FASTQ files in respect of the sample, which is being said to be XE variant, were analysed in detail by genomic experts of INSACOG who have inferred that genomic constitution of this variant does not correlate with genomic picture of XE variant,” an official said.
With 4,82,039 tests conducted in the last 24 hours 79.25 crore COVID tests have been conducted in the country so far. A total of 185.20 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive.
