Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
covid 19 india

New Delhi: India reports 20,346 fresh cases of coronavirus which pushed the total tally to 1,03,95,278 in the nation. The active cases now stand at 2,28,083. With 19,587 new recoveries, as far as 1,00,16,859 patients recovered, and with 222 new deaths in the last 24 hours, the death toll has risen to 1,50,336.

As per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 9,37,590 samples were tested yesterday, and as far as 17,84,00,995 samples have been tested till January 6.

As per Union Health and Welfare Ministry, the infection (Active) rate is 2.19 percent, the recovery rate has reached 96.36 percent and the death rate is 1.45 percent.

Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry have been proactively carrying out the preparations for the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine, in collaboration with States/UTs and all stakeholders, over the past couple of months to ensure that the preparations for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine are on track.

Two COVID-19 vaccines have been given emergency use authorization by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) recently.

As a simulation of actual execution, another round of dry run/mock drill in all 700+ districts of all States/UTs (except UP and Haryana who have already conducted/ will be conducting the dry run in all districts on 5th January and 7th January respectively) is planned on 8 January 2021 to ensure efficient planning and management for vaccine delivery in each district of all States/UTs.