Since May 12, this is the seventh time India has registered over 4,000 daily deaths due to Covid.
In highest ever daily fatalities, India recorded four thousand five hundred and twenty nine deaths in the last 24 hours. 2.67 lakh fresh infections were also reported in a day as a deadly second wave continues to affect lakhs every day in the country.
Since May 12, this is the seventh time India has registered over 4,000 daily deaths due to Covid. Since Monday, the country has been reporting less than 3 lakh infections. The cases dropped below the 3 lakh-mark for the first time since April 21.
In a tweet last evening, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said positivity rate is higher than 15 per cent in 22 states. India’s average positivity rate stood at 13.31 per cent this morning.
In a new record, in the last 24 hours, 20,08,296 samples were tested in the country.
Only 1.8 per cent of the country’s population has contracted the virus so far, the government said on Tuesday. “Despite the high number of cases reported so far, we have been able to contain the spread to under 2 per cent of the population. We can not let our guards down, hence continued focus on containment is critical,” a top official said.
Scrambling to get enough of doses, many states are struggling to ramp of the vaccination drive. However, the centre said over 1.94 crore doses are still available with the states to be administered.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday assured: “Vaccination is an effective means of fight Covid and we should together remove all misgivings about it. We are making relentless efforts to increase vaccine supply in a big way.”
On Tuesday evening, Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla said his firm “never exported vaccines at the cost of the people of India”. Stressing that all efforts are being made to ramp up production, he said India’s vaccination drive can’t be completed in two-three months given the huge population.
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