India registered 38,949 new COVID cases, 542 deaths. According to data released by the Federal Ministry of Health on Friday (July 16), the number of COVID cases in India has again surged slightly, bringing the total number of active cases to 4,30,422.
The ministry stated that 19,55,910 tests were conducted on Thursday, bringing the country’s cumulative total of tests for COVID19 so far to 44,00,23,239, and the daily positive rate is 1.99%.
The positive rate was less than 3% for 25 consecutive days, he said. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the weekly positive rate is 2.14%.
Statistics show that the number of people recovering from the disease has risen to 3,01,83,876, and the case fatality rate has risen to 1.33%. In the national vaccination campaign against COVID19,
Doses of vaccines received so far have reached 39.53 crore.
Last year, the total number of COVID19 in India surpassed the 2 million mark on August 7, the 3 million mark on August 23, the 4 million mark on September 5, and the 5 million mark on September 16. September of last year.
Broke 6 million on September 28, 7 million on October 11, 8 million on October 29, 9 million on November 20, and 10 million on December 19 of last year.
There were more than 20 million cases in India on May 4 and 30 million cases on June 23.
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