NEW DELHI: India added 2,364 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, taking the active cases in the country to 15,419, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.
States like Delhi (2675), Haryana (1324), Uttar Pradesh (948), Kerala (3555), Karnataka (1815), Maharashtra (1605) recorded the highest number of active cases.
During the last 24 hours, 2,582 people were cured, taking the total number of cured people to 4,25,89,841.
Diagnostic centers are not informing many people about the Kovid test. “Apart from travel guideline-based testing and a few clinical cases, we are not seeing much demand for COVID 19 testing at present. “The kind of positivity rate we are seeing varies from 1% to >10% as we work through our vast network across India,” said Anand K, CEO, SRL Diagnostics.
India has conducted around 84.54 crore tests with 4,77,570 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.
More than 191.79 crore vaccine doses have been given so far under the nationwide immunization campaign that started from January 16 last year.
“More than 3.22 crore (3,22,66,248) adolescents in the age group of 12-14 years have been given the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Similarly, COVID-19 3,16,75,284 precautionary doses have been given to eligible persons, including health workers, frontline workers, elderly people above 60 years of age and population group in the age group of 18-59 years, the ministry said. .