474 New Covid-19 Cases In India In 24 Hours

Total number fatalities to 5,30,533…

New Delhi: On Tuesday, India reported 474 new coronavirus infections, the lowest since April 6, 2020, taking the total number of Covid cases to 4,46,67,398.

The country also reported one Covid related fatality in the last 24 hours, taking the total number fatalities to 5,30,533.

The active cases further declined to 7,918, according to the health ministry website.

The country has conducted over 1,40,149 tests in the span of 24 hours.

While Assam has reported 2,529 active cases, Gujarat contributed 361 active cases so far. Karnataka and Kerala have contributed 1,881 and 2,432 active cases respectively.

Maharashtra is now left with 1,067 active cases, Tamil Nadu has 750 active cases, UP has 229 and West Bengal has 266 active cases at present.

Under the covid vaccination drive, more than 219.80 crore vaccine doses have been administered to the people across the country so far.

Meanwhile, the Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has directed states/UTs to do surveillance of incoming international travellers as a part of revised surveillance strategy in context of Covid-19.

Besides this, they have as directed all states/UTs to continue monitoring influenza-like illness (lLl) & SARI cases in all hospitals on a regular basis and constant genome sequencing.

The states have also been asked to continue with vaccination of all eligible people.