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India on Wednesday reported a net decrease of 102,063 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 892,828. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.2 per cent (one in 83). The country is twelfth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 71,365 cases to take its total caseload to 42,410,976 from 42,339,611 — an increase of 0.17%. And, with 1,217 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 505,279, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
With 5,361,099 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,708,706,705. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 41,012,869 — or 96.7 per cent of total caseload — with 172,211 new cured cases being reported on Wednesday.
