India recorded 249 fresh coronavirus infections on Friday, while the number of active cases dropped to 4,228, according to Union health ministry data. With this, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country has gone up to 4,46,74,439. The death toll has risen to 5,30,653 with six deaths reported in Kerala, the data updated at 8 am said.
No one died in covid in the last 24 hours. According to the ministry’s website, the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 percent.
A decrease of 16 cases has been registered in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who recovered from the disease increased to 4,41,39,558, while the fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 percent.
According to the website of the ministry, 219.96 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been given so far under the nationwide vaccination campaign.