Covid cases dip: India logs 50,407 new infections, 804 deaths
Active caseload has reduced to 6,10,443 and active cases are 1.43% of the total Covid infections in the country.
Active caseload has reduced to 6,10,443 and active cases are 1.43% of the total Covid infections in the country.
More than 24.61 crore balance and unutilized Covid Vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered, according to the health ministry as of Monday morning.
This is the lowest daily surge in Covid-19 cases since March.
The active cases comprise less than 1 per cent of the total infections, currently at 0.67%, lowest since March 2020.
The active cases comprise 0.72 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.95 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
With 180 new fatalities in a day, the overall death toll mounted to 4,48,997, according to the latest report issued by the Union Health Ministry on Monday.
The active cases have seen a decline of total 3,856 cases in the last 24 hours, taking India's active caseload to 2,99,620, the lowest in 191 days.
Daily worldwide new cases are crossing 700,000 globally now. Factoring for underreporting, these could be easily crossing a million globally. On 8 January 2021, the spike was 8,50,000 (not accounting for underreporting).
The total number of samples tested up to January 15 were 18,57,65,491, including 8,03,090 tested on Friday, the Indian Council of Medical Research said.
This is the first time since July 15 that the caseload has dropped the 30,000 mark.
