NEW DELHI, May 5 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally reached 20,665,148 today, with as many as 382,315 new cases registered during the past 24 hours, confirmed the federal health ministry.
Besides, 3,780 deaths were also reported, taking the death toll to 226,188.
There are still a total of 3,487,229 active cases in the country, with an increase of 40,096 active cases through yesterday, as 16,951,731 people have been cured and discharged from hospitals, so far, across the country.
The COVID-19 figures continue to peak in the country every day. The federal government ruled out imposing a complete lockdown to contain the worsening situation, though some states have imposed night curfews or partial lockdowns.
Delhi has been put under a third successive lockdown till May 10.
While some school examinations are cancelled, others have been postponed in the wake of the COVID-19 situation.
The number of daily active cases has been on the rise over the past few weeks. In Jan, the number of daily cases had come down to below 10,000. As many as 9,102 new cases were reported between Jan 25-26, which was the lowest in the previous 237 days. Prior to that the lowest number of daily new cases were 9,304 registered on June 4, 2020.
Jan 16 was a crucial day in India’s fight against the pandemic as the nationwide vaccination drive was kicked off during the day. So far over 160 million vaccination doses (160,494,188) have been administered.
Online registration began last week, for vaccinating people aged above 18. This is the third phase of COVID-19 vaccination, which began on Saturday.
As many as 294,852,078 tests were conducted till yesterday, out of which 1,541,299 tests were conducted yesterday alone, said the latest data issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) today.
Delhi, witnessed 19,953 new cases and 338 deaths through yesterday.
So far, as many as 17,752 people have died in the national capital.
Meanwhile, India received its first doses of the Russian-made vaccine,
Sputnik-V, on Saturday.– NNN-PTI
