Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 24: India reported nearly three lakh new COVID-19 infections for the sixth day in a row, despite the fact that the caseload was 8% lower than the day before, according to government data.
With the addition of 3.06 lakh instances recorded today, India’s Covid tally now stands at 3.95 crore, making it the second worst-affected country behind the United States.
The current cases now account for 5.69 percent of all infections, while the COVID-19 recovery rate has dropped to 93.07 percent nationwide. The daily positivity rate, which is the percentage of coronavirus tests that come back positive and is a vital indicator of the pandemic’s condition, has risen from 17.78 percent to 20.75 percent, while the weekly positivity rate was 17.03 percent.
COVID-19 vaccination coverage in India has reached 162.26 crore doses. At least 72 percent of India’s adult population is completely vaccinated, while approximately 52 percent of children aged 15 to 18 have received their first dose of Covid vaccine.
According to the Health Ministry, 439 people have died as a result of Covid in the last 24 hours. During the pandemic, the coronavirus has killed at least 5,572,224 people since the outbreak began in China in December 2019 according to AFP. With 860,248, the United States has the most Covid deaths, followed by Brazil (622,205), India (489,848), and Russia (324,752). At least 60% of the patients who died were either partially or completely unvaccinated.