Covid India: 12,516 new Covid cases, 501 deaths reported

Covid India | In the last 24 hours, India reported 12,516 fresh Covid-19 cases and 501 deaths, said the Ministry of Health and Family welfare on Friday.

With the addition of 501 new deaths, the total death toll in the country has reached 4,62,690. The recovery of 13,155 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally to 3,38,14,080. Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.26 per cent, highest since March 2020.

The active caseload stands at 1,37,416, lowest in the last 267 days. Active cases presently constitute 0.40 per cent of the country’s total positive cases, the lowest since March 2020. Also in the same period, a total of 11,65,286 tests were conducted across the country.

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India has so far conducted over 62.10 crore cumulative tests. Meanwhile, the weekly positivity rate at 1.10 per cent has remained less than 2 per cent for the last 49 days now.

The daily positivity rate stands at 1.07 per cent, which has also remained below 2 per cent for the last 39 days and less than 3 per cent for 74 consecutive days now.

With the administration of 53,81,889 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s Covid inoculation coverage has reached 110.79 crore as of Friday morning. This has been achieved through 1,13,18,816 sessions.

Covid: Mizoram Plans To Inoculate Myanmar Refugees Against Covid

The Mizoram government is planning to administer Covid-19 vaccine to Myanmar nationals who have taken refuge in the state following a military coup in the neighbouring country in February, a health department official said on Thursday.

Altogether 12,736 people of Myanmar are currently staying in various parts of Mizoram, particularly in districts bordering that country, according to the state police’s record.

The official said the authorities of those districts are gearing up to vaccinate all the eligible refugees.

East Mizoram’s Champhai district has the highest number of Myanmar nationals at 7,291, followed by the southernmost Lawngtlai district at 1,746 and state capital Aizawl at 1,622.

A large section of those who have taken refuge in the state belong to the Chin, also known as the Zo, community. They share the same ancestry and culture as the Mizos of Mizoram. They were mainly the residents of Chin, a state in Myanmar, which shares its Western border with Mizoram.

The majority of the Myanmar nationals are lodged in relief camps set up by villagers, while others live with their relatives in the state and some others in rented houses, police said.

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