Over 87 lakh people administered COVID-19 vaccines in the country so far

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Feb 16, 2021

8:13PM

Over 87 lakh people administered COVID-19 vaccines in the country so far

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More than 87,20,000 people have been administered COVID-19 vaccines in the country so far. The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has informed that a total of 4,35,527 people have been inoculated with COVID-19 doses in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the country's COVID-19 recovery rate improved to 97.32 per cent with the recovery of more than 11,800 patients within the last 24 hours. The Ministry said more than one crore six lakh patients have already recovered from this disease. Active cases of COVID-19 are on a continuous declining trajectory in the country.

According to the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, there are 1,36,872 active cases in the country which comprises only 1.25 per cent of the total positive cases. A total of 9,121 new cases have been reported in the country in the past 24 hours taking the cumulative positive cases to over one crore nine lakh. The Health Ministry said, 81 deaths have been reported within 24 hours taking the toll to over 1,55,000 across the country.

The Indian Council of Medical Research said that various laboratories have conducted more than 6,15,000 tests of Coronavirus samples in the last 24 hours. More than 20 crore 73 lakh tests have been done in the country so far.