India records 9,110 new Covid-19 cases, 78 deaths; tally over 10.8 million

The number of people who have recuperated from the viral disease surged to 10,548,521 pushing the national Covid-19 recovery rate to 97.24%. There are 143,625 active cases of coronavirus disease in the country.

India reported less than 10,000 daily cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the second time this month, and 78 related deaths taking the country's tally to 10,847,304, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare's on Tuesday morning. There were 8,635 Covid-19 cases on February 2. The number of daily fatalities fell below 100 for the fifth time this month, according to the health ministry's data updated at 8am as the death toll increased to 155,158. The Covid-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.43 per cent now, data showed.

A policeman gets himself photographed after getting vaccinated at a selfie point erected to create awareness on Covid-19 vaccination at a government hospital in Mumbai. (AP)

The 78 new fatalities include 16 from Kerala, 15 from Maharashtra and 11 from Punjab. Out of the 155,158 deaths reported so far in the country, 51,325 fatalities have been recorded in Maharashtra, 12,387 in Tamil Nadu, 12,239 in Karnataka, 10,882 in Delhi, 10,209 in West Bengal, 8,691 in Uttar Pradesh and 7,160 from Andhra Pradesh.

The number of people who have recuperated from the viral disease surged to 10,548,521 as 14,016 patients were discharged across the country, pushing the national Covid-19 recovery rate to 97.24%. There are 143,625 active cases of coronavirus disease in the country.

India has now vaccinated 6,259,008 people across the country, the health ministry's data also showed. The health ministry has said India reached the 6 million mark in 24 days, the fastest in the world. The United States, which is the worst-hit country in the world, took 26 days to reach this mark, and the United Kingdom did it in 46 days, it said.

Till Monday evening, 60,35,660 beneficiaries were vaccinated through 1,24,744 sessions. Of these, 54,12,270 are healthcare workers and 623,390 frontline workers whose vaccination started on February 2. Eleven states and Union territories of Bihar, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Kerala have vaccinated more than 65 per cent of the registered healthcare workers, the ministry has said.

Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Punjab, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, and Puducherry have reported less than 40 per cent coverage of vaccinating healthcare workers.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Tuesday that 20,25,87,752 samples were tested for Covid-19 up to Monday and of these, 687,138 samples were tested on the same day.

The health ministry had said on Monday that India has been recording less than 150 daily Covid-19 deaths for the last 10 days. It added that the effective strategy of containment, including prompt tracing and tracking, aggressive and widespread testing, combined with standardised clinical management protocols, has ensured the low mortality levels, in addition to consistent low daily positive cases.