New Delhi:
India has reported 41,195 new cases of Coronavirus infection in the last 24-hour, taking the overall tally to 32,077,706, as per the latest update release by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. In the same time, 490 deaths were also reported in the country, which took the overall death toll to 429,669, the Ministry added.
Kerala reported 23,500 new infections, the highest in the country, accounting for more than 60 per cent of the daily cases reported across the country. It was followed by Maharashtra 5,560, Andhra Pradesh (1,869), Tamil Nadu (1,964), Karnataka (1,826), West Bengal (639) and Delhi (37).
India has reported a total of 3,12,60,050 recoveries so far. The country has recorded its highest-ever recovery rate of 97.45%, as per Thursday's update. The country currently has 3,87,987 active cases, which constitute of 1.21 per cent of the total cases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that it will soon test three drugs used for other diseases to find out if they can help patients with coronavirus. These include artesunate, a malaria drug, the cancer drug imatinib, and infliximab, which is currently used in people with immune system disease.
The number of countries, areas or territories reporting various variants of Covid-19 has continued to increase after the global infection tally surpassed the 200 million mark last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
In a landmark development, India's cumulative Covid-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 520 million (523,253,450) landmark milestone. A study on mixing Covishield and Covaxin, the two main vaccines used in India's COVID-19 vaccination programme, has been given a go-ahead by the Drugs Controller General Of India (DCGI).
Meanwhile, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 202.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.32 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.52 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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