According to the Union Health Ministry of India, India reported 18,840 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday. The Union Health Ministry of India has confirmed 16,104 recoveries pushing the total recoveries to 4,29,53,980 crore.
In the last 24 hours, India also reported 43 deaths taking the country’s toll to 5,25,386 lakh. At the same time, the active caseload stood at 1,25,028. Although on July 8, there were 1,22,335 active cases of Covid-19.
The active cases comprise 0.29 per cent of the total infections. Furthermore, the current recovery rate in the country stands at 98.51 per cent and the daily positivity rate at 4.14 per cent.
The health ministry said on Saturday that as many as 4,54,778 tests were conducted on Thursday taking the total cumulative tests undertaken so far in the country to 86,61 crore.
Meanwhile, the national capital, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra has seen a massive spike in Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Delhi reported 531 cases of Covid-19 on Friday. Odisha reported 512 new Covid-19 cases and Tamil Nadu reported 2,722 new cases. However, Maharashtra reported 2,944 new cases of Covid-19.
New Sub-Variant of Covid-19 Detected in India
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed new Covid-19 sub-variant BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant, which has been detected in India. In addition, BA.4 and BA.5 are driving waves in other countries like Europe and America.
“On Covid-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 per cent over the last two weeks. Four out of six of the WHO sub-regions saw cases increase in the last week,” the news agency PTI qouted, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Vaccination In India
Moreover, as of now, India has administered 1,98,65,36,288 crore vaccine doses, and for the age group 12-14 years, over 3.74 crore 1st dose vaccines have been administered. However, in the last 24 hours 12,26,795 Covid-19 vaccines were administrated.
Notably, the nationwide vaccination drive was started on January 16, 2021.