India reports 43,733 new Covid cases in 24 hours, 930 deaths

Mangalore Today News Network / NDTV

New Delhi, Jul 07, 2021: India reported 43,733 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, as against Tuesday’s 34,703. During the last 24 hours, 47,240 patients recovered from the infection, taking the total recoveries across the country to 2,97,99,534. The daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 55th consecutive day, said a health ministry release. The active caseload has declined to 4,59,920.

 

Recovery rate has increased to 97.18%, the weekly positivity rate is currently at 2.39% and the daily positivity rate at 2.29%. So far, 36.13 crore vaccine doses have been administered under the nationwide vaccination drive, the release said.

The government on Tuesday cautioned that people roaming in hill stations and markets without following COVID-19-appropriate behaviours can nullify the gains made in the management of the pandemic so far.

Stressing that the pandemic was not yet over, an official described the images of large numbers of people thronging popular hill stations as "frightening".

The government said violations of Covid protocols will lead to further increase in the infections as it stressed on wearing of masks and maintaining of physical distancing.