INDIA on Wednesday witnessed a significant jump in the daily Covid-19 cases as compared to the day before with 7,830 new infections – taking the total tally to 4,47,76,002. On Tuesday, a total of 5,676 cases were reported. According to the health ministry data, the active infections stand at 40,215.
A total of 4,42,04,771 people have recuperated so far with the recovery rate rising to 98.72%. Meanwhile, with 16 new fatalities, the death toll due the disease has increased to 5,31,016. The fatality rate stands at 1.19%, the health ministry data revealed.
The country had recorded a single-day jump of 7,946 COVID-19 cases on September 1 last year.
The ministry’s website confirmed that 220.66 crore doses of vaccines have been administered in the country under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
On Tuesday, Delhi logged 980 fresh Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 25.98 per cent, meaning one in every four people tested returned a positive result, according to data shared by the city government’s health department.
The national capital also reported two more Covid deaths, the bulletin said. However, it added that Covid-19 was not the primary cause of death in one of the fatalities while the case sheet on the other death was awaited.
Meanwhile the Odisha government has requested the Centre for at least an additional 50,000 doses of vaccine in the first phase to cover people who have not received the booster dose yet. For the last four days the state has been reporting over 100 cases a day.
The state director of family welfare Bijay Panigrahi, who is also its nodal officer for immunisation, has in his letter to the ministry of health and family welfare sought CorBEvax vaccine for Odisha.
“Presently there is a rise in Covid cases in Odisha. Also there is a demand from public for precaution dose vaccination at government facilities,” Panigrahi said in the letter.
