India reports 20,551 new Covid cases, 70 deaths

New Delhi, Aug 5 : In the past 24 hours, India reported 20,551 new Covid-19 cases, which is an increase from the 19,893 cases recorded earlier in the day in addition to 70 deaths in addition The Union Health Ministry said on FridayThe number of new deaths has risen to bring the death toll across the country by 5,26,600.

The number of active cases has slightly decreased to 1,353,364 and accounts for 0.31 percent of the all positive cases.The recuperation of 21 595 patients in the last 24 hours increased the total to 4,34,456,624.Thus, Indias rate of recovery is 98.50 percent.While the daily rate of positivity increased to 5.14 percent while the weekly rate was 4.64 per cent.Additionally, in the same time period in the same time frame, there were a total of 4,00,110 testing were conducted across the country, bringing the total to more than 87.71 crore.As of Friday morning the Covid-19 vaccination coverage in India was more than 205.59 crore, achieved through 2,72,544,426 vaccination sessions More than 3.93 million adolescents have been vaccinated with the initial dose of Covid-19 jab since beginning of vaccination drives for this age group.avr/ .