New Delhi. During the last 24 hours, 3,33,533 new cases of corona virus infection were reported in India, taking the total number of people infected so far in the country to 3,92,37,264. The Union Health Ministry gave this information in the updated data on Sunday. According to the data updated by the ministry at 8 am on Sunday, the number of patients under treatment in the country has increased to 21,87,205, while the total number of people who lost their lives due to the epidemic in India during the last 24 hours is 4 ,89,409 has been reached.
India reports 3,33,533 new COVID cases (4,171 less than yesterday), 525 deaths, and 2,59,168 recoveries in the last 24 hours
Active case: 21,87,205
Daily positivity rate: 17.78%) pic.twitter.com/h8Hmvjwqsj– ANI (@ANI) January 23, 2022
According to the ministry, at present, 5.57 percent of the total cases of infection found in the country are under treatment, while the recovery rate of patients is 93.18 percent. According to the latest figures, the number of patients under treatment has increased by 73,840 during the last 24 hours. At the same time, a total of more than 162.92 crore doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the country. It is noteworthy that on 7 August 2020, the number of infected in the country had exceeded 20 lakh, on 23 August 2020, 30 lakh and on 5 September 2020, more than 40 lakh.
The total cases of infection crossed 50 lakh on 16 September 2020, 60 lakh on 28 September 2020, 70 lakh on 11 October 2020, 80 lakh on 29 October 2020 and 90 lakh on 20 November. On 19 December 2020, these cases had crossed one crore in the country. Last year, on May 4, the number of infected had crossed 20 million and on June 23, 2021, crossed 30 million.