COVID-19: India registers 14,623 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, active cases lowest in 229 days

COVID-19 Coronavirus Cases India: India registered 14,623 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, as per the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The number of cases today is slightly higher than yesterday when the country registered 13,058 coronavirus cases and which was also the lowest number of new daily cases in 231 days. 

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India is also approaching another milestone as it is nearing 100 crore vaccinations. As per the data, 99.12 crore vaccination doses have been administered under the Nationwide Vaccination Drive. 

It has to be noted that India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 2. 

According to an earlier report by ANI,  Dr Sekhar C Mande, Director General, CSIR said, "We have been able to get a large population vaccinated with the first dose and even with the second dose. Our vaccines do prevent the disease to a large extent. If tested positive after being jabbed, the severity of COVID-19 is also reduced. Even if the third wave comes, then the intensity will be low and much less compared to the second wave." 

The ANI also reported that Mahindra Agarwal, Professor at IIT Kanpur had said that the emergence of another wave depends on the emergence of a more infectious strain. 

It must be noted that the country has registered 19,446 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases taking the total number of recoveries to 3,34,78,247. The recovery rate currently stands at 98.15 per cent which is the lowest since March 2020. At present, India's active cases account for less than 1 per cent of the active cases and currently stands at 0.52 per cent. 

India's active caseload at present stands at 1,78,098 and the lowest in 229 days.