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India Registers 15,906 New COVID-19 Cases

by Colleen Fleiss on Oct 24 2021 11:40 PM

India Registers 15,906 New COVID-19 Cases
In India, in the last 24 hours, 15,906 new Covid-19 cases and 561 deaths have been registered, said the Union Health Ministry.
The new fatalities have taken the death toll to 4,54,269.

The active caseload stood at 1,72,594, which is the lowest in 235 days.

Active cases presently constitute 0.51 per cent of the country's total positive cases, the lowest since March 2020.

Also in the same period, a total of 13,40,158 tests were conducted across the country.

India has so far conducted over 59.97 crore cumulative tests.

Meanwhile, the weekly positivity rate at 1.23 per cent has remained less than 2 per cent for the last 30 days now.

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The daily positivity rate stands at 1.19 per cent, which has also remained below 2 per cent for last 20 days and less than 3 per cent for 55 consecutive days now.

With the administration of 77,40,676 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's Covid inoculation coverage has reached 102.10 crore as of Sunday morning,

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This has been achieved through 1,01,28,910 sessions.

--IANS

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Source-IANS


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