India reports 15,040 new Covid cases, 29 deaths

New Delhi, Aug 16 : India on Tuesday announced 15,040 cases of new Covid cases , and 29 deaths.

as per the Union Health MinistryThe number of new deaths has increased the number of deaths in the nation up to 5,27,098.The number of active cases has slightly decreased to 1,112,252, accounting for 0.25 percent of the overall positive cases.The recuperation of 1540 patients in the last 24 hours brought the total number of patients to 4,363,38,844.Thus, Indias rate of recovery is 98.56 percent.While the daily positive rate has decreased to 4.15 percent The weekly positivity rate was 4.79 percent.Additionally, in the same time frame in the same time frame, there were a total of 2,12,129 test were conducted throughout the country, which brought the total to more than 88.06 crore.As of Tuesday morning the coverage of Indias Covid-19 vaccine was greater than 208.31 crore, achieved through 2,76,967,728 sessions More than 3.97 million adolescents have been given with the initial dose of Covid-19 jab since beginning of the vaccination drive for this age group.avr/ .