India recorded 253 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
India has reported 253 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative coronavirus infections to 4,46,73,166, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Saturday.
With this, the country's active caseload has come down to 4,597, which is 0.01% of the total infections. A decrease of 75 has been registered in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours.
It said the death toll climbed to 5,30,627 with three more fatalities - two in Kerala and one in Himachal Pradesh reported in a span of 24 hours.
According to the ministry, the recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent.
The number of people who have been cured of the disease increased to 4,41,37,942, while the death rate was 1.19 percent.
According to official figures, 219.93 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said about 90% of the world's population now had some resistance to COVID-19, but warned that a worrying new variant could still emerge.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the lapse in vigilance was leaving the door open for a new virus variant to appear and overtake the globally dominant Omicron.
Last weekend marked one year since the WHO declared Omicron as a new variant of concern in the COVID-19 pandemic. It has since flown around the world, proving to be significantly more transmissible than its predecessor Delta.
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