India logs 1,225 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours
New Delhi, March 31: India reported 1,225 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.
With the new cases, the active caseload stands at 14,307 which accounts for 0.03 per cent of the country's total Covid-19 positive cases. Meanwhile, 1,594 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 4,24,89,004. The current recovery rate is at 98.76 per cent.
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With 6,07,987 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the positivity rate is at 0.20 per cent. As many as 78.91 crore Covid-19 tests have been conducted in the country so far.
India's Covid vaccination coverage has exceeded 184.06 crore as per provisional reports till 7 am on Thursday.
The vaccination for the age group 12-14 years was started on March 16, 2022. So far, more than 1.60 crore adolescents have been administered the first dose of COVID vaccine.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday met WHO chief Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesu in Kuwait, where he reaffirmed support to the UN agency's additional studies on the Covid-19 origins, including in China to better understand the pandemic.
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"In a meeting with DG Tedros, we discussed saving lives by ending this pandemic and advancing global health security. The US supports the World Health Organisation's plans for additional studies into Covid-19 origins, including in People's Republic of China (PRC), to better understand this pandemic and prevent future ones," Blinken tweeted.
In recent months, the lab-leak theory has gained great traction pushing the Biden administration to give the American intelligence to find answers into the virus origin under a stipulated period of time.
-PTC News
