As active cases of the coronavirus disease in India (Covid-19) fell below the 400,000 mark on Monday, the government said it was the lowest count in the country since July 20, when 390,459 were reported. infections India recorded 32,981 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s account to more than 9.67 million, data from the Union’s health ministry showed.
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“India today reported a historic achievement. India’s total active Covid-19 case burden has fallen below the four lakh mark today to 396,729. This number translates into only 4.1% of all cases. This is the lowest after 140 days. Total active cases were 390,459 on July 20, “the government said in a press release.
There were 39,109 recoveries in the last 24 hours from new cases, which meant the total number of active cases plummeted to 6,519, according to the ministry’s dashboard. Meanwhile, the total number of recoveries and deaths is 9,139,901 and 140,573 respectively. Recoveries, active cases and deaths constitute 94.45%, 4.10% and 1.45%, respectively, of the total cases in India.
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India has continued the trend of reporting more new recoveries than daily Covid-19 cases as in the past 10 days, the government noted. In addition, he said that the new cases registered per million inhabitants in India in the last seven days, 182, are among the lowest in the world.
These numbers come even when they came to light, Adar Poonawalla’s Serum Institute of India (SII) has applied for the emergency use authorization of the Covid-19 candidate from the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca, Covishield. This makes Pune-based SII the second company to apply for emergency use authorization in India, after US-based Pfizer Inc, and the first local company to do so.
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