India administers over 85 crore vaccines; new cases drop below 30,000

The total vaccine doses crossed 85 crore (85,60,81,527) mark as India administered 68,42,786 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours. Out of the total doses administered in the last 24 hours, the maximum of over 41 crore doses have gone to the 18-44 age group followed by people from the 45-59 age group.

States and UTs had provided over 83.54 crore doses via central government and through direct procurement. After total vaccine administration till now, over 4.56 crore unutilised doses are still available with the states and UTs while 1.17 crore doses are now in the pipeline

A total of 3,29,02,351 patients have recovered since the beginning of the pandemic out of which 26,032 patients recovered in the last 24 hours. India’s recovery rate now stands at 97.77 percent.
The number of new cases reported dropped below 30,000 with 28,326 new cases being reported in the last 24 hours. This addition takes the active caseload to 3,03,476 which constitutes 0.90 percent of the total positive cases reported in the country.

A total of 14,88,945 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours taking the total number of tests conducted so far to over 56.32 Cr.

The daily positivity rate stands at 1.90 percent while the weekly positivity rate slightly decreased to 1.98 percent.