The Health Ministry said over 1 crore 10 lakh 85 thousand people were given Covid-19 vaccination in the country so far. Over 4 lakh 32 thousand doses were given in the last 24 hours. India continues reaching new milestones in terms of administering COVID vaccine doses to record number of beneficiaries.
Meanwhile the COVID-19 recovery rate in the country has marginally improved to 97.25 percent. In the last 24 hours, 11 thousand 667 people recovered and over one crore six lakh 89 thousand people have recovered so far from the COVID-19 infection.
In the last 24 hours, 14 thousand 264 new cases were reported. The number of active cases in the country stands at nearly one lakh 45 thousand comprising merely 1.32 per cent of the total reported cases. 90 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative toll to 1 lakh 56 thousand 302.
Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR has informed that over 6 lakh 70 thousand samples were tested for COVID-19 in the country yesterday. With this the cumulative testing figure has crossed 21 crore 9 lakh figure. As of today, two thousand 393 laboratories are engaged in testing COVID samples, which includes one thousand 220 government and one thousand 173 private labs.