NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (NNN-PTI) – India’s daily COVID-19 caseload, today decreased to 6,168, officials said.
According to federal health ministry data, released this morning, the new cases were reported during the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,442,507 in the country.
The cases reported today marked a fall from the daily caseload of 7,946 yesterday.
With the fresh cases, India’s active caseload currently stands at 59,210.
The country also logged 21 related deaths during the past 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll to 527,932, since the beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.
With the increase in cases, the daily positivity rate stands at 1.94 percent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.51 percent, the ministry data showed.
The ministry said 43,855,365 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals, of whom 9,685 were discharged during the past 24 hours.
According to the health ministry, the cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeded two billion doses and until this morning 2,127,523,421 doses were administered.
So far over 886 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted across the country.
A cumulative total of 886,466,255 samples have been tested up to yesterday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said today. Out of these 318,642 tests were conducted on Thursday alone.
A local media report said, around 12 percent of the eligible population in the age group of 18-59 years have taken the booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
