India recorded 24,010 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, while the national recovery rate stood at over 95 per cent, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry today.
India's coronavirus caseload mounted to 99,356,557 with 24,010 infections being reported in a day, while the deaths rose to 1,44,451 with 355 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am on Thursday showed.
There are 3,322,366 active coronavirus infections in the country which constitute 3.24 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
Meanwhile, Professor Randeep Guleria, the chief of Delhi's prestigious All-India Institute of Medical Sciences told NDTV on Wednesday that it could take up to six months before a sufficient number of people could be vaccinated to break the chain of coronavirus transmission and another six months before life could get close to the pre-Covid days.
"I'm hopeful that in the next six months, we will have two things. A sufficient number of people who have got the infection and recovered and have some kind of immunity and people who will get the vaccine," Professor Guleria told NDTV. Together, they should break the chain of transmission of the virus, he added.
