India’s daily COVID-19 cases drop below 2,000 mark

India continues to witness a declining trend with daily infections dropping below the 2,000 mark on Sunday. According to the Union health ministry’s updated data on Sunday morning, India has reported 1,761 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

There has been a sustained fall in the weekly and daily Positivity Rates too. The weekly Positivity Rate in the country currently stands at 0.41% and the daily positivity rate is also reported to be 0.41%.

The active caseload declined to 26,240. Total 3,196 people recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, increasing the total number to 4,24,65,122. The recovery rate has also improved to 98.74 per cent.

Meanwhile, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 181.21 crores.  Vaccination for the age group 12-14 years was started on 16 March, 2022. So far, more than 17 lakh (17,36,464) adolescents have been administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Precaution doses have been given to 2,17,33,502 people so far. Of these, 43,58,282 were given to healthcare workers, 66,63,768 to frontline workers, and 1,07,11,452 to people above the age of 60 years.

In the age group of 15-18 years, 5,62,03,581 children have taken the first dose and 3,54,81,792 have taken the second dose of vaccination.