India logs 39,097 new COVID cases, 546 deaths in past 24 hours; recovery rate at 97.35 pc
Meanwhile, a hospital based in the American state of Maryland has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and two continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) machines for COVID-19 relief in India.
India's tally of COVID-19 infections rose by 39,097 in a day to reach 3,13,32,159, while 546 more people succumbed to the viral disease during the same period taking the death toll to 4,20,016 on Saturday, according to Union Health Ministry data. The number of active cases in the country has increased to 4,08,977, accounting for 1.34 per cent of the total caseload while the national COVID-19 recovery rate stood at 97.35 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
An increase of 3,464 cases was recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a day.
Also, 16,31,266 tests to detect COVID-19 were carried out on Friday, taking the total number of such tests conducted so far in the country to 45,45,70,811, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.40 per cent. It has remained below 3 per cent for 33 days in a row.
The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.22 per cent.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 3,05,03,166, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent, the data stated.
The total number of Covid vaccine doses administered so far in the country has reached 42.78 crore.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 last year, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19 last year.
| S. No. | Name of State / UT | Active Cases* | Cured/Discharged/Migrated* | Deaths** | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Change since yesterday | Cumulative | Change since yesterday | Cumulative | Change since yesterday | ||
| 1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 19 | 1 | 7377 | 3 | 129 | |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 23571 | 368 | 1911812 | 2199 | 13209 | 12 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 4398 | 14 | 40102 | 468 | 208 | 4 |
| 4 | Assam | 16205 | 488 | 532940 | 2262 | 5076 | 22 |
| 5 | Bihar | 597 | 7 | 713998 | 54 | 9635 | |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 34 | 7 | 61073 | 9 | 809 | |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 3241 | 143 | 984015 | 359 | 13507 | 1 |
| 8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 36 | 2 | 10584 | 3 | 4 | |
| 9 | Delhi | 585 | 19 | 1410095 | 29 | 25040 | 1 |
| 10 | Goa | 1376 | 37 | 165700 | 129 | 3123 | 5 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 370 | 19 | 814162 | 53 | 10076 | |
| 12 | Haryana | 765 | 24 | 759287 | 47 | 9613 | 2 |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 935 | 6 | 200356 | 119 | 3509 | 2 |
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 1513 | 89 | 314454 | 172 | 4373 | 1 |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 305 | 10 | 341419 | 32 | 5122 | |
| 16 | Karnataka | 24718 | 950 | 2828983 | 2572 | 36293 | 31 |
| 17 | Kerala | 129381 | 758 | 3072895 | 13454 | 15739 | 122 |
| 18 | Ladakh | 83 | 8 | 19995 | 10 | 206 | |
| 19 | Lakshadweep | 67 | 4 | 9984 | 11 | 49 | |
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh | 185 | 781024 | 17 | 10512 | ||
| 21 | Maharashtra | 97513 | 574 | 6016506 | 7756 | 131038 | 120 |
| 22 | Manipur | 10395 | 48 | 77147 | 868 | 1436 | 12 |
| 23 | Meghalaya | 4413 | 192 | 53945 | 307 | 988 | 14 |
| 24 | Mizoram | 7744 | 548 | 22617 | 295 | 131 | 4 |
| 25 | Nagaland | 1237 | 19 | 25251 | 61 | 536 | 1 |
| 26 | Odisha | 17466 | 329 | 939160 | 2210 | 5308 | 67 |
| 27 | Puducherry | 955 | 6 | 117265 | 72 | 1783 | 2 |
| 28 | Punjab | 811 | 58 | 581529 | 123 | 16250 | 4 |
| 29 | Rajasthan | 360 | 2 | 944150 | 22 | 8952 | 1 |
| 30 | Sikkim | 2719 | 103 | 21294 | 189 | 328 | 2 |
| 31 | Tamil Nadu | 25526 | 632 | 2483676 | 2475 | 33838 | 29 |
| 32 | Telangana | 9857 | 51 | 625738 | 696 | 3774 | 3 |
| 33 | Tripura | 4251 | 87 | 70623 | 594 | 734 | 2 |
| 34 | Uttarakhand | 649 | 6 | 333621 | 48 | 7359 | 2 |
| 35 | Uttar Pradesh | 1028 | 8 | 1684286 | 56 | 22743 | 4 |
| 36 | West Bengal | 12205 | 186 | 1491016 | 966 | 18040 | 13 |
| Total# | 405513 | 3881 | 30468079 | 38740 | 419470 | 483 | |
Meanwhile, a hospital based in the American state of Maryland has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and two continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) machines for COVID-19 relief in India, an Indian-American non-profit body has said.
Sewa International, USA received the medical consignment from MedStar Foundation during a recent event in Maryland. The consignment includes N-95 equivalent masks, face shields, gloves, goggles, and full-length PPE attire, a media release said on Friday.
Right after the event, the donated material was sent from Hyattsville, Maryland to Sewa International's Atlanta, Georgia, warehouse in seven 18-wheeler trucks, it said.
"This is the largest in-kind Medical equipment donation Sewa has received from a hospital system in the US. Sewa is sending the PPE to Trinidad and Tobago and to a few countries in South America which are experiencing the second wave of COVID-19 cases. The CPAP machines will go to India,” said Professor Sree Sreenath, former president of Sewa International, who was present at the event.