India logs 5,379 new Covid cases, 27 deaths

New Delhi, Sep 7 : India reported 5,379 fresh Covid cases in the past 24 hours which is a slight increase over the previous number of 4,417 cases, as reported by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday.

The active caseload has dropped to 50,594 cases.This accounts for 0.11 percent of the all positive cases.The recuperation of 709 patients in the last 24 hours brought the total to 4,38,935,590.In the end, Indias recovery rate is 98.70 percent.The daily positivity rate has slightly increased to 1.67 percent, while the rate of positivity for weekly periods is 2.00 percent.Additionally, in the same time frame in the same time frame, an overall of 321 917 test were carried out across the nation, bringing the total to more than 88.80 crore.As of Wednesday morning the coverage of Indias Covid-19 vaccination was higher than 213.91 crore.More than 4.05 million adolescents have been given with the initial dose of Covid-19 jab since beginning of the vaccination campaign for this age group.avr/dpb .