With the administration of 72,86,883 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, the country's Covid-19 vaccination coverage surpassed the cumulative figure of 73.82 crore as per provisional reports till 7 am on Sunday.
In the meantime, the country on Sunday reported a gradual decline in daily Covid-19 cases with 28,591 infections recorded in the past 24 hours, which pushed the nationwide tally to 33,236,921, while the death toll climbed to 442,655 with 338 fresh fatalities.
According to the Union Health Ministry, active cases are at 6,595 to stand at 384,921 during the same period. Active cases constitute 1.18% of total cases while the national Covid-19 recovery rate stands 97.6%, the Ministry said. Kerala accounted for the highest count, followed by Maharashtra. Currently, Kerala has a total of 2,38,201 active cases while Maharashtra has 49,796. Other states, such as Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan have also seen improvement in their daily Covid case count for the past month.
As many as 15,30,125 Covid-19 tests were conducted on Saturday, taking the total number of samples tested so far to 54,18,05,829.. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.1%, even as it has remained below 3 per cent for the past 12 days. The weekly positivity rate, which has been less than 3 per cent for the past 78 days, was recorded at 2.26% on Sunday morning, according to the health ministry.
Meanwhile, the Centre has urged people not to be complacent and follow Covid-19 protocols as the festive season has kicked off in the country.
As per the Ministry, “more than 57 lakh doses (57,56,240) are in the pipeline.”