India reports 797 new COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths in last 24 hours

New Delhi: India registered 797 fresh cases of COVID-19, and five deaths in last 24 hours, as per Union health ministry data released on Friday.

The active case tally stands at 4,091, as per data on health ministry website on Friday morning. The official data reflected five COVID deaths- two in Kerala, and one each in Maharashtra, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu.

Since the outbreak of coronavirus in January 2020, the total count has reached 4,50,10,944. Whereas, the death toll due to COVID-19 cases has risen to 5,33,351, the ministry data also showed.

After the emergence of new COVID sub variant and cold weather conditions, the cases have again gone up.

The daily numbers were in lakhs at the peak of the pandemic, which began in early 2020 and has seen more than 4.5 crore people getting infected and over 5.3 lakh deaths in about four years since then across the country.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease stands at over 4.4 crore with a national recovery rate of 98.81 per cent, according to the ministry's website.

According to the government's website, 220.67 crore doses of COVID vaccines have so far been administered in the country.