IN NUMBERS: As many as 9 million essential workers vaccinated so far India reported 11,610 fresh coronavirus infections on Wednesday, taking the cumulative caseload to 10,937,320, according to a report in the Scroll. A hundred deaths were reported, taking the total death toll to 155,913, according to central health ministry data. The total recoveries have surged to 10,644,858. The national recovery rate has climbed to 97.33 per cent. The active caseload fell to 136,549, which makes up 1.25 per cent of the total caseload. About 9 million healthcare and frontline workers have been inoculated since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Current vaccination pace deliberately slow: ICMR task force official