GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 13th May. India logged 1,223 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The active caseload in the country stood at 16,498, the Health Ministry said.
According to the ministry, 2,720 recoveries from the disease were recorded in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries in the country up to 4,44,31,137. The recovery rate presently stands at 98.78 per cent.
The daily positivity rate is 0.86 percent and the weekly positivity rate stands at 1.30 per cent, the ministry said.
As many as 1,636 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered during this period.
A total of 220.66 crore COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country so far.
A total of 92.84 crore tests have been conducted so far and 1,42,695 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, the ministry added.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently declared that the COVID-19 pandemic is over as a global health emergency.
However, the viral load and the emergence of any new variants must still be monitored, according to Dr. Rakesh Mishra, director of the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS).
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