India reported 6,660 new Covid-19 cases and 9,213 recoveries in the last 24 hours with the active cases now standing at 63,380 on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Maharashtra reported four deaths due to Covid-19 infection, and 850 new cases in the last 24 hours, state's health department said in a bulletin on Saturday.
After six days of a nationwide falling trend in COVID cases, India reported a hike on Wednesday with 10,542 new infections, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The total Covid vaccine doses administered in the country under the nationwide vaccination drive are 220.66 crores with 198 doses administered in the last 24 hours. Having 6,313 recoveries in the last 24 hours, India's total recovery increased to 4,42,35,772 with a recovery rate standing at
Himachal Pradesh reported 104 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of active cases to 2074, the state health department informed through a bulletin on Saturday.
The overall active caseload in the country currently stands at 40,215 with a daily positivity rate of 3.65 per cent and a weekly positivity rate of 3.83 per cent, according to the release.
A total of 5675 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in India in the last 24 hours, decreasing marginally from Monday's case count of 5,880, stated a bulletin issued by the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday.
Amid the nationwide increase in COVID cases, Capital Hospital in Odisha's Bhubaneswar, run by the state government, has ramped up the testing in line with the government's COVID norms, an official said on Saturday.
Amid a nationwide upward trend in the COVID cases, Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya will chair a review meet with the health ministers of all states and Union Territories on Friday afternoon, sources said.