India reports 14,256 new COVID-19 cases

India’s reported 14,256 fresh infections on Saturday, pushing the country’s Covid-19 caseload to 1,06,39,684, according to the Union health ministry data.

As many as 152 coronavirus positive patients succumbed to the disease in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll due to coronavirus in India to 1,53,184. India also registered 17,130 discharges on Friday.

With the fresh number of coronavirus cases and discharges, the active Covid-19 cases in the country now stand at 1,85,662. So far, 10,300,838 people have recovered from the disease taking the national recovery rate to 96.81 percent.

The Covid-19 case fatality rate stood at 1.44 percent.

According to the ICMR, a total of 19,09,85,119 samples have so far been tested for the viral disease in the country, including 8,37,095 on Friday.

Maharashtra has so far reported the highest number of 50,684 deaths caused by the viral disease in the country, followed by Tamil Nadu (12,307), Karnataka (12,190), Delhi (10,789), West Bengal (10,097), Uttar Pradesh (8,605), Andhra Pradesh (7,146), Punjab (5,543) and Gujarat(4,374).

Since the vaccination drive was launched last Saturday, 13,90,592 have been vaccinated.