Covid-19: India witnesses marginal dip, logs 11,692 new cases
Covid-19 update: India has reported a marginal decline, with the country recording 11,692 fresh covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The country, on Thursday, logged 12,591 cases, the Union health ministry said.
India recorded 10,542 on April 19; 7,633 on April 18; 9,111 on April 17; 10,093 on April 16 and 10,753 on April 15. According to the Union Health Ministry, the number of active Covid-19 infections rose to 66,170 which was 65,286 yesterday.
Currently, the covid recovery rate stands at 98.68 per cent with 0.15 per cent of active cases, the Health Ministry added.
Moreover, 10,780 recoveries were reported in the last 24 hours to the overall count of people cured of the infection to 4,42,72,256, the bulletin stated. The overall recovery rate is currently at 98.67 per cent, it added.
India has administered 220,66,31,979 crore Covid vaccine doses (95.21 cr second doses and 22.87 cr precautionary doses) under the nationwide Vaccination Drive, with 3,647 doses administered in the last 24 hours.
The overall number of tests performed in the last 24 hours is 2,29,739, according to the health ministry.
Following a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases across the country, Dr PK Mishra, the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary, convened a high-level meeting on Wednesday to review the situation.
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According to the PMO, the meeting focused on the status of preparedness of health infrastructure and logistics, drugs, vaccination campaigns in the country and the key necessary steps as a response to the recent surge in Covid cases.
"Dr PK Mishra stressed that the time tested 5-fold strategy of Test-Track-Treat-Vaccination and adherence COVID Appropriate Behaviour must continue to be implemented and equally crucial to promote awareness within the community regarding COVID appropriate behaviour and caution citizens against complacency," the PMO said.
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- ANI
