India reports 514 Covid-19 cases, 3 deaths in 24 hours
New Delhi/IBNS: India reported 514 new Covid-19 cases and three people died of infection in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.
From 3,643, the active caseload went down to 3,422.
Two people died in Maharashtra and one in Karnataka. The total death toll has touched 5,33,409.
In the last 24 hours, 732 people have recovered from the infection taking the recovery rate to 98.81%.
The fatality rate has reached 1.18%, the ministry said.
220.67 crore doses of vaccines have been administered so far in the country.
Though the coronavirus scare had subsided, the new variant of JN.1 emerged causing worry for the people in the vast country of 1.4 billion people.
819 Covid cases of JN.1 variant have been reported so far from 12 states across the country.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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