India records 16,047 new Covid cases, 54 deaths in last 24 hours

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

New
Delhi,
Aug
10:
India
on
Wednesday
recorded
16,047
new
coronavirus
cases
and
54
fatalities
including
six
reconciled
by
Kerala,
according
to
the
latest
Union
Health
Ministry
data.

With
these
additions,
the
country’s
overall
Covid
figures
rose
to
4,41,90,697
cases
and
5,26,826
deaths.

The
data
updated
at
8
am
showed
active
cases
came
down
by
3,546
in
a
span
of
24
hours
to
1,28,261,
now
constituting
0.29
per
cent
of
the
total
infections.
The
COVID-19
recovery
rate
stood
at
98.52
per
cent,
the
health
ministry
said,
adding
the
case
fatality
rate
was
1.19
per
cent.

The
daily
positivity
rate
was
recorded
at
4.94
per
cent,
while
the
weekly
positivity
was
4.90
per
cent,
the
ministry
said.
The
number
of
recoveries
stands
at
4,35,35,610.

Uploading
Covid-19
vaccine
certificate
or
RT-PCR
report
may
soon
not
be
necessary
for
flyers

According
to
the
ministry,
207.03
crore
doses
of
Covid
vaccine
have
been
administered
in
the
country
so
far
under
the
nationwide
drive.
The
48
new
fatalities
include
seven
each
from
Delhi,
Maharashtra
and
Punjab,
five
from
West
Bengal,
three
each
from
Himachal
Pradesh
and
Mizoram,
two
each
from
Chhattisgarh,
Karnataka,
Odisha,
Sikkim,
Uttarakhand
and
Uttar
Pradesh
and
one
each
from
Gujarat,
Haryana,
Jharkhand
and
Nagaland.