India logged 1150 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, with an increase of 175 cases more from Saturday, stated the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.
With this, India’s active caseload has now declined to 11,558 with active cases now constituting 0.03% of the country’s total positive cases.
As per the data shared by the ministry, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.76% with 954 patients having recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 4,25,08,788.
While the weekly positivity rate in the country currently stands at 0.27 percent, the daily positivity rate is reported to be 0.31 percent, as per the data.
Besides, the health ministry stated, that the last 24 hours saw a total of 3,65,118 COVID-19 tests being conducted taking the cumulative tests to over 83.18 Cr.
Under the National vaccination drive, 186.51 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far.
As per the data, COVID-19 vaccination for the age group 12-14 years was started on 16 March 2022. So far, more than 2.42 Cr (2,42,97,421) adolescents have been administered the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
More than 20.57 crore balance and unutilised Covid vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered.
Besides, as per the ministry’s data, more than 192.27 crore vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far through Govt. of India (free of cost channel) and through the direct state procurement category.