A net reduction of 30,016 COVID-19 cases has been reported from the total active case tally in last 24 hours after a period of 61 days, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare told on Tuesday (May 11). The new recoveries in last 24 hours have also surpassed the number of new cases after 61 days.
The Health Ministry said that India’s complete active case tally has plunged to 37,15,221 on Tuesday and it currently contains 16.16 percent of the nation’s all positive cases.
A total of 3,29,942 new cases were reported in last 24 hours out of which 39,305 were reported from Karnataka followed by 37,236 from Maharashtra and 28,978 from Tamil Nadu.
According to Health Ministry information 10 states- – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana contributed to 69.88% fresh infections. “Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar cumulatively account for 82.68 per cent of India`s total active cases,” it said.
Likewise, with 3,56,082 new recoveries, India’s total recoveries remained at 1,90,27,304 on Tuesday and the country’s recovery rate is at 82.75%.
Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana and Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have contributed to 72.28% of recoveries. In addition, with 3,876 new fatalities in last 24 hours, the country’s fatality rate at present stands at 1.09%. 10 states represent 73.09% of the new fatalities while Karnataka saw the most fatalities (596) trailed by Maharashtra with 549 daily fatalities.
In the mean time, the aggregate number of COVID-19 vaccines doses administered in India has surpassed 17.27 crore on Tuesday. A sum of 17,27,10,066 vaccine doses have been managed through 25,15,519 sessions, according to the temporary report till 7 am today and in excess of 25 lakh vaccine doses were administered in last 24 hours.
After the 115 days of vaccination drive total 25,03,756 vaccine doses have been administered. Across 18,542 sessions, 10,75,948 people have administered their first dose and 14,27,808 their second dose.
“These include 95,64,242 HCWs who have taken the 1st dose and 65,05,744 HCWs who have taken the 2nd dose, 1,40,54,058 FLWs (1stdose), 78,53,514 FLWs (2nd dose), 25,59,339 beneficiaries under 18-45 age group (1st dose), 5,55,10,630 (1st dose) and 71,95,632 (2nd dose) beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 years.5,38,06,205 1stdose beneficiaries and 1,56,60,702 2nd dose beneficiaries of more than 60 years old,” it added
Ten states– Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh account for 66.7 per cent of the cumulative doses given so far in the country.”5,24,731 beneficiaries of the age group 18-44 years received their first dose of COVID vaccine in the last 24 hours and cumulatively 25,59,339 across 30 States/UTs since the start of phase-3 of vaccination drive,” the ministry further said.
The Ministry also said that 8,900 oxygen concentrators, 5,043 oxygen cylinders, 18 oxygen age plants, 5,698 ventilators/Bi-PAP and more than 3.4 lakh Remdesivir vials got as a global aid to India have been supplied and dispatched to states and UTs to fortify and enhance their COVID reaction, up until this point.
