Covid-19: India logs 975 new cases, 4 deaths in 24 hours
New Delhi, April 16: India reported 975 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours with a daily case positivity rate of 0.32 percent, according to the data updated by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.
The weekly case positivity rate in India is recorded at 0.26 percent. Meanwhile, the active caseload in the country stands at 11,366, accounting for 0.03 percent of the total cases.
As many as 796 Covid patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries since the onset of the pandemic in India to 4,25,07,834, as per the update by the health ministry.
India's recovery rate currently is 98.76 percent.
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Furthermore, four patients lost their lives to coronavirus in the last 24 hours. With this, India's death toll has gone up to 5,21,747.
As many as 3,00,918 samples were tested for Coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours. With this 83.14 crore tests have been conducted in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
Under the ongoing Nationwide Vaccination Drive, 6,89,724 doses of Covid vaccines were administered in the last 24 hours and the total number of vaccines administered in the country has gone up to 1,86,38,31,723.
Meanwhile, Paediatric pulmonologist at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Dr Dhiren Gupta, on Friday called the shutting down of schools due to teachers and students contracting Covid-19 a "knee jerk" reaction and said people who were contracting infection have mild symptoms.
"With the present trend, I feel it is a knee-jerk reaction. In the last two years, we have destroyed the younger generation as their mental and physical development is wasted. The real investment of a country is children. If they don't progress then after 10 years we will have weak personalities," added Dr Gupta.
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"With the present trend, we should not shut our schools and the government should tell us that no schools should have the authority to shut down. When adults are vaccinated and have natural immunity then they are not panicking as well. We should give importance to our kids more than any business or establishment," he added.
-PTC News 
As many as 796 Covid patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries since the onset of the pandemic in India to 4,25,07,834, as per the update by the health ministry.
