14 States/UTs have not reported any deaths in the last 24 hours
New Delhi: India has become the fastest country in the world to reach the 4 million COVID19 vaccination mark. The country has achieved this feat in 18 days, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated here today. As on February 1, 2021, India was among the top five countries in terms of number of COVID19 vaccine doses administered to people.
“India continues to undertake its vaccination drive at a fast pace,” the Ministry stated.
The Ministry further stated that 14 States/Union Territories had not reported any deaths in the last 24 hours. These states were Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Diu & Daman amd Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland, Lakshadweep, Ladakh (UT), Sikkim, Manipur, Puducherry, Goa, Odisha and Assam.
With a high number of COVID patients recovering every day and the sustained fall in the mortality rate, India’s steady trend of registering dipping active cases continued, the Ministry claimed.
In all 11,039 new confirmed cases were recorded in the last 24 hours in the country, 14,225 new recoveries were registered in the same period. It has led to a net decline of 3,296 cases from the total active caseload.
The total recovered cases are 1,04,62,631. TheNational Recovery rate (97.08%) continued to be one of the highest globally. The gap between active cases and recovered cases was continuously increasing and stood at 1,03,02,574. In all 31 States and UTs had less than 5,000 active cases.
110 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours. Five States/UTs accounted for 66.36%of these. Maharashtra reported maximum casualties with 30 new fatalities. It is followed by Kerala with 16 new daily deaths.
The country’s active cases had declined further to 1,60,057 in the last 24 hours. The Active Caseload of the country had fallen below 1.5% (1.49% presently) of the total cases.
– global bihari bureau
