After the arrival of 3,038 new cases of corona virus infection in India in one day, the number of people infected so far in the country has increased to 4,47,29,284. At the same time, the number of patients under treatment has increased to 21,179.
According to the updated data released by the Union Health Ministry at 8 am on Tuesday, after the death of two patients each in Delhi and Punjab and one each in Jammu-Kashmir, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand due to infection, the death toll in the country increased to 5, 30,901. At the same time, while re-reconciling the figures of death due to infection, Kerala has added two more names to the list of patients who lost their lives due to the global pandemic.
According to the updated data, 21,179 people are currently being treated for coronavirus infection in the country, which is 0.05 percent of the total cases. The national rate of recovery of patients is 98.76 percent. So far a total of 4,41,77,204 people have become infection free, while the death rate from Kovid-19 is 1.19 percent.
According to the website of the Ministry of Health, so far 220.66 crore doses of anti-Kovid-19 vaccines have been administered under the nationwide vaccination campaign in India. Significantly, on August 7, 2020, the number of corona virus infected in India had crossed 20 lakhs, on August 23, 2020, 30 lakhs and on September 5, 2020, more than 40 lakhs.
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The total cases of infection crossed 50 lakh on 16 September 2020, 60 lakh on 28 September 2020, 70 lakh on 11 October 2020, 80 lakh on 29 October 2020 and 90 lakh on 20 November. On 19 December 2020, these cases had crossed one crore in the country. On May 4, 2021, the number of infected had crossed two crore and on June 23, 2021, it crossed three crore. Last year on January 25, the total cases of infection had crossed four crores.
