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India on Sunday reported a net reduction of 9,162 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 586,403. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 5.08 per cent (one in 19). The country is third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Saturday, it added 50,040 cases to take its total caseload to 30,233,183 from 30,183,143 — an increase of 0.2%. And, with 1,258 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 395,751, or 1.31 per cent of total confirmed infections.
With 6,425,893 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Saturday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 321,760,077. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 29,251,029 – or 96.75 per cent of total caseload – with 57,944 new cured cases being reported on Sunday.
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These cases were reported on Sunday, he said. With 26 more patients succumbing to coronavirus, the death toll in the district rose to 10,276. The mortality rate is 1.95 per cent, he added. The details of recovered and under-treatment patients were not provided by the district administration. In neighboring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count has gone up to 1,13,593 while the death toll is 2,404, he said.
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