India surpasses average daily COVID vaccinations as compared to 18 other countries

Union Health Ministry anunced on Thursday, that India has exceeded aver daily COVID-19 vaccination rate of world's 18 major countries. world's 18 major countries have ministered 81,70,000 (8.17 million) doses of COVID-19 vaccine. India has ministered 85,40,000 (8.54 million) doses. Japan, United States, United Kingdom, Cana, and Russia are among nations on this list.

data is from September 1 to September 13, according to Ministry. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday revealed that India has received 30,570 new cases in COVID-19 over last 24 hours. This takes  country's tally of COVID cases to 3,33,47,325.

India's recovery rate from COVID stands at 97.64%

Kerala found 17,681 COVID cases among new infections. For past 81 days, country has reported fewer than 50,000 cases of COVID infection, according to Ministry. total number of active cases in India is w 3,42,923. number of active cases is 1.03% of overall number of cases. weekly positivity rate of 1.93% has been below 3% for past 83 days. daily positive rate is 1.94% according to reports. For past 17 days, it has been less than 3%. rate of recovery is 97.64%. With 38,303 recoveries in last 24 hours, total number of recoveries w stands at 3,25,60,474.

Current COVID-19 cases and vaccination statistics in India

In previous 24 hours, 431 people have died as a result of COVID-19, bringing total death toll to 4,43,928. India has significantly increased its COVID-19 testing capacity, with approximately 54.77 crore tests completed so far. 76,57,17,137 vaccine doses have been provided to eligible beneficiaries as part of ongoing national COVID-19 vaccination initiative, with 64,51,423 doses ministered in last 24 hours.

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin to be approved soon by WHO

World Health Organization is expected to approve Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin for Emergency Use Listing (EUL) at any time soon, according to Dr VK Paul, NITI Aayog member (Health). By end of month, a decision is expected. Dr Paul told ANI that data sharing and evaluation are currently taking place. data from Bharat Biotech's Phase 3 clinical trials, which showed 77.8% efficacy, was submitted to Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation's Subject Expert Committee (SEC) (CDSCO). Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, and Sipharm have all received WHO approval for COVID-19 vaccines.

With inputs from ANI

(IM: UNSPLASH)