Vikrant Shekhawat : Mar 11, 2022, 12:06 PM
There is news of great relief that the corona wave is slowing down in the country. Active cases have come down sharply to 42,219. In the last 24 hours, 4194 new corona infected have been found.This has been said in the report released by the Union Health Ministry on the basis of updates till 8 am on Friday. In the last 24 hours, 255 people succumbed to the epidemic. With this, the total death toll in the country has increased to 5,15,714.Active cases are 0.10 percent as compared to the total infected. At the same time, the national recovery rate has further improved to 98.70 percent. In the last 24 hours, there has been a decrease of 2269 in active cases. The daily positivity rate was fixed at 0.55 per cent. In the country, 4,24, 26,328 people have defeated the epidemic. Right now the corona mortality rate is 1.20 percent. So far more than 179.72 vaccines have been administered under the ongoing war against Corona.The number of Kovid patients in the country has crossed 20 lakhs on 7th August, 2020, 30 lakhs on 23rd August, 40 lakhs on 5th September and 50 lakhs on 16th September. After this it crossed 60 lakhs on 28th September, 70 lakhs on 11th October. It crossed the 80 lakh mark on 29 October, 90 lakh on 20 November and one crore on 19 December 2020. Last year on May 4, it had crossed the dreaded level of two crores and on June 23, three crores.