Under the Kovid vaccination campaign, more than 219.93 crore vaccine doses have been given to people across the country so far.
New Delhi: India's new Covid cases dropped to 74 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of active cases down to 4,767 on Friday, according to Health Ministry data. Over 4.46 crore Covid cases have been reported so far, while India has recorded 530,622 Covid deaths in the last two years.
While Karnataka reported 1625 active cases, Kerala has 1632 active cases. Maharashtra has 373 active cases, Odisha has 77 cases, Rajasthan has 70 cases, Tamil Nadu has 178 active cases; There are 122 active cases in Uttar Pradesh and 61 in West Bengal so far.
The country has conducted over 2,14,021 tests in the last 24 hours.
So far, more than 219.93 crore vaccine doses have been given to people across the country under the Covid vaccination campaign. About 64,240 vaccine doses were given in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, INSACOG under the supervision of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is closely monitoring the COVID situation in the country and continues to do genome sequencing to track down any new variants.
In addition, surveillance is also being done at the hospital level to monitor for Influenza Like Illness (III) and SARI cases.
With the low number of Covid cases, several state governments have relaxed travel norms and reduced the mandatory wearing of masks.
Recently, the Ministry of Health has also issued updated travel guidelines for the public, stating that all travelers should be fully vaccinated as per the approved primary schedule of vaccination against COVID-19 in their home countries.
Ministry of Health has said that an announcement will be made regarding the ongoing pandemic in-flight during travel including the precautionary measures to be followed (better use of masks and physical distancing) on flights/travel and at all points of entry Will be done.
Meanwhile, China is witnessing a new surge of Covid as several major cities re-imposed lockdowns.
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