India recorded more than 30,000 fresh COVID-19 cases, while its active caseload is more than 4,00,000 today, according to Union health ministry data.
India recorded 30,549 new coronavirus infections that pushed its tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,17,26,507 while the number of deaths climbed to 4,25,195 with 422 deaths in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The active cases have increased to 4,04,958 and comprise 1.28 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate is 97.38 per cent, it stated. The daily positivity rate is 1.85 per cent. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.39 per cent, the ministry data stated.
Delhi on Tuesday reported 50 new coronavirus cases and four deaths, according to data shared by the health department. According to the department, Delhi now has 519 active cases, which is the lowest this year.
Meanwhile, as the government struggles to ramp up the production of Covid shots to meet its target of vaccinating all adults by the year-end, the supply of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin has been slowed down because the first few batches at the company's newest facility in Bengaluru were not of the right quality, a top government adviser has said.
In an exclusive interview to NDTV, Covid task force member NK Arora admitted that the government was banking on a much sharper rise in the production of Covaxin - one of the two main vaccines in use in India - but was set back because of the quality issues at what is the company's biggest plant globally.
