India on Wednesday recorded 2.08 lakh new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 4,157 deaths. India’s active caseload has dropped to 24,95,591 with a dip of 91,191 cases. India’s total recoveries now stand at 2,43,50,816 so far. In the past 24 hours, 2,95,955 patients have recovered, said the Union health ministry. Recoveries continue to outnumber the daily fresh Covid cases for the 13th consecutive day. The recovery rate has increased to 89.66% while the weekly positivity rate is currently at 11.45%, the health ministry said.
States have been urged repeatedly to keep vaccine wastage below 1%, many States like Jharkhand (37.3%), Chhattisgarh (30.2%), Tamil Nadu (15.5%), Jammu & Kashmir (10.8%), Madhya Pradesh (10.7%) are reporting much higher wastage than the national average (6.3%), the Ministry of Health said.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20 lakh-mark on August 7 last, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19 last year.
India crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4 this year.
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