NEW DELHI, Jun 7 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 28,909,975 today, with 100,636 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, said the federal health ministry.
The single-day spike of cases is found to be the lowest in over two months. Earlier, on Apr 5 the country had crossed the 100,000-mark.
Besides, as many as 2,427 deaths since yesterday morning pushed the overall death toll to 349,186. This is the first time in the past 45 days, when daily deaths fell down to below the 2,500-mark.
There are still 1,401,609 active cases in the country, as there was a decrease of 76,190 cases in the past 24 hours. The number of daily active cases has been on the decline over the couple of weeks, after a continuous surge since mid-Apr.
A total of 27,159,180 people has been cured and discharged from hospitals so far, latest data from the federal health ministry showed.
So far, over 232 million vaccination doses (232,786,482) have been administered to the people across the country. A total of 1,390,916 vaccine doses were given yesterday alone.
Meanwhile, the government has ramped up testing facilities across the country, as 366,334,111 tests were conducted till yesterday, out of which 1,587,589 tests were conducted yesterday alone, said the data issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research today.
