India adds 54,069 new Covid-19 cases and 1,321 fatalities

Physical distancing goes for a toss during a mobile vaccination drive by at Risala Bazar in Hyderabad, on Thursday. Pic/PTI

India reported 54,069 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, and 1,321 more fatalities were added to the total toll, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Thursday morning.

The national Covid-19 recovery rate has also improved to 96.61 per cent. A net decline of 16,137 cases in the Covid-19 caseload has been recorded in a day. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.91 per cent. According to the inoculation data of 7 am, India administered 64.89 lakh vaccine doses in a day taking the cumulative figure to 30.16 crore.

Meanwhile, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday expressed concern over the pace of vaccination in India, and said the country needs to prepare for the third wave of Covid-19 and protect children. Addressing a meeting of party general secretaries and in-charges of AICC in various states, she said the party must ensure that vaccine hesitancy is overcome and wastage of vaccines minimised.

She also called upon the partymen to continue to put pressure on the union government to ensure that the daily rate of vaccination trebles so that 75 per cent of the population gets fully vaccinated by end of this year. "No doubt, this is dependent entirely on the adequacy of vaccine supply," Gandhi said.

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Total no. of Coronavirus cases in india so far

3,91,981
Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India so far

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Total no. of active cases in India

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