The Union Health Ministry in its report said that India recorded 2,858 Kovid-19 cases and 11 deaths in 24 hours on Saturday. With this, the caseload has risen to 43,119,112 while the active cases declined by 508 in a span of 24 hours. As of 14 May, there are total 18,096 active COVID cases in India. The daily recoveries have risen to 3,355, while cumulatively 4,25,76,815 have been cured so far, which is 98.74% of the total cases.
According to the Health Ministry, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.59% and the weekly positivity rate was 0.66%.
Of the 2,858 Covid-19 cases, Delhi has the highest number of 899 cases with a positivity rate of 3.34%. Maharashtra, on the other hand, recorded 263 new Covid infections and two pandemic-related deaths. The state’s Covid-19 caseload rose to 78,80,337 and the death toll rose to 1,47,853.
The Union Health Ministry said that the cumulative number of COVID vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 191 crore. More than 13 lakh vaccine doses have been given till 7 pm on Friday.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has notified that it cannot be said that the acute phase of COVID-19 has disappeared. The UN health agency said this because many countries have not been able to end the emergency phase of the epidemic.
We live in an interconnected world. And so while some countries may be able to end the emergency phase of this pandemic, we don’t see that happening in all countries around the world. That’s why we need to fight it on a global scale,” said WHO’s Maria Van Kerkhove.
In addition, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned during a press briefing this week that “the rising cases in more than 50 countries highlight the instability of this virus”.
Tedros said that Covid-19 variants, including mutated versions of the highly infectious Omicron, are driving the resurgence of COVID-19 in several countries, including South Africa, which in November was the first to identify Omicron.