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India on Thursday reported a net decrease of 16,163 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 148,359. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.23 per cent (one in 435). The country is forty-first among the most affected countries by active cases. On Wednesday, it added 14,148 cases to take its total caseload to 42,881,179 from 42,867,031 — an increase of 0.03%. And, with 302 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 512,924, or 1.2 per cent of total confirmed infections.
With 3,049,988 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Wednesday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,765,231,385. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,219,896 — or 98.46 per cent of total caseload — with 30,009 new cured cases being reported on Thursday.
