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India logs 2,202 Covid cases, 27 deaths in the last 24 hours

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: May 16, 2022 09:34 IST

India on Monday reported 2,202 fresh Covid cases, a decline against the 2,487 infections registered the previous day, the ...

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India on Monday reported 2,202 fresh Covid cases, a decline against the 2,487 infections registered the previous day, the Union Health Ministry said.

Also in the same period, there were 27 Covid fatalities which took the nationwide death toll to 5,24,241.

The active caseload has marginally declined to 17,317 cases, accounting for 0.04 per cent of the country's total positive cases.

The recovery of 2,550 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,25,82,243. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.74 per cent.

While the daily positivity rate reported a slight rise at 0.74 per cent, the weekly positivity rate stood at 0.59 per cent.

Also in the same period, a total of 2,97,242 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall to 84.41 crore.

As of Monday morning, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 191.37 crore.

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