New Delhi: India on Wednesday (July 26), recorded a single-day rise of 60 COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, while the number of active cases increased marginally to 1,469 from 1,449 the day before, according to Union health ministry. With the fresh cases, India’s COVID-19 caseload climbed to 4.49 crore. The death toll remained unchanged at 5,31,915, the data updated at 8 am stated.
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The national COVID-19 recovery rate stood at 98.81 per cent, according to the health ministry website.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,44,61,008 and the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.18 per cent.
According to the ministry’s website, 220.67 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.
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