day, India’s daily caseload Sunday came down to 19,673, officials
said, Trend
reports citing Xinhua.
According to federal health ministry data released on Sunday
morning, 19,673 new cases of COVID-19 were reported during the past
24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,019,811 in the country.
With the reporting of fresh cases, India’s active caseload
currently stands at 143,676.
The country also logged 45 related deaths during the past 24
hours, pushing the overall death toll to 526,357 since the
beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.
With the increase in cases, the daily positivity rate stands at
4.96 percent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 4.88
percent, the ministry data showed.
The ministry said so far 43,349,778 people have been
successfully cured and discharged from hospitals, of whom 19,336
were discharged during the past 24 hours.
According to the federal health ministry, the cumulative
COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country has exceeded 2 billion
doses, and until Sunday morning 2,042,569,509 doses were
administered.
So far over 875 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted
across the country.
A cumulative total of 875,207,621 samples have been tested up to
July 30, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said Sunday.
Out of these, 396,424 tests were conducted on Saturday alone.
Recently, the Indian government estimated that 40 million
eligible beneficiaries in the country have not taken even a single
dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
At present, the government is focussing on promoting booster
doses as the uptake for the third dose has been low. According to
officials, the exercise is aimed at improving the booster dose
coverage among the people in wake of the detection of new
variants.
No new variant of concern of COVID-19 has been detected in the
country since Omicron in the first week of December 2021, the
government said on Friday, adding, however, various Omicron
sub-lineages are circulating across all states with the clinical
presentation remaining largely the same.
The government also stated COVID-19 infections among children
and adolescents typically cause less severe illness as compared to
adults, according to the WHO.
Last week, the federal government in the Indian parliament said
given the emergence of COVID-19 variants with variable
transmissibility and other public health implications, the health
ministry was closely following the COVID-19 trajectory globally and
in the country.
Local governments in various states have issued advisories
urging people to wear face masks and follow COVID-19 protocols in
mass gatherings in the wake of an increase in daily infections.
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