India logs 12,751 fresh Covid cases, 42 deaths

New Delhi, Aug 9 : India reported 12,751 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours this is a decrease from the previous days number of 16,167, according to the Union Health Ministry on TuesdayIn the same time frame the country recorded 42 additional Covid deaths, bringing the total death toll up to 5,26,772.

In the meantime, the number of active cases has decreased slightly to 1,31,807 cases, which is 0.31 percent of the all positive cases.The recuperation of 16412 patients in the last 24 hours increased the total to 4,35,16,071.Thus, Indias rate of recovery is 98.51 percent.The positive daily rate of positivity has dropped to 3.50 percent, while the week-long positivity rate is 4.69 percent.Additionally, in the same time period in the same time frame, an overall of 3,63,855 test were conducted across the country, bringing the total to more than 87.85 crore.As of Tuesday morning, Indias vaccination coverage surpassed 206.88 crore, which was achieved by 2,74,59,679 sessions More than 3.95 million adolescents have been vaccinated with the initial dose of Covid-19 since the beginning of the vaccination campaign for this age group.avr/dpb .