India's daily vaccine coverage drops; over 25 lakh doses administered in last 24 hours

Daily vaccine dose coverage saw a massive drop on Sunday as India administered 25,23,089 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours. This takes the cumulative figure of vaccine doses administered to 68.75 crore (68,75,41,762). Out of the total doses administered in the last 24 hours, the maximum of over 30 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 68 crore vaccine doses via central government and through direct procurement. After total vaccine administration till now, over 5.08 Crore unutilised doses are still available with the states and UTs while 1.44 crore doses are now in the pipeline.

A total of 3,21,81,995 patients have beaten the virus and recovered since the beginning of the pandemic out of which 43,903 patients recovered in the last 24 hours. India’s recovery rate now stands at 97.44 percent.

India reported less than 50,000 cases for 71 consecutive days; the number however still remains high. India reported 38,948 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. This addition takes the active caseload to 4,04,874 which constitutes 1.23 percent of the total positive cases reported in the country.

The testing capacity has been ramped up extensively which has helped in identifying a COVID-19 case before the person affected can infect others. 14,10,649 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours taking the total number of tests conducted so far to over 53.14 Cr.

India has fared well in terms of keeping the positivity rate under 3 percent for a while now. The daily positivity rate that has been below five percent for 91 consecutive days has slightly dropped from the previous day to 2.76 percent.

The weekly positivity rate which has come down rapidly from the positivity rate recorded during the second wave, stands at 2.58 percent and has remained less than three percent for the last 73 days.