Coronavirus India Latest Updates: Active Cases Fall To Lowest In Six Months

Follow the latest updates on the Covid-19 pandemic in India here.

Protective masks are held up by a vendor. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)

India's active Covid-19 case load fell to the lowest in nearly six months even as the daily infection rate stayed above the 30,000-mark.

As many as 30,256 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours according to the Health Ministry’s update as of 8 a.m. on Sept. 20.

Active cases stand at 3,18,181, less than 1% of the country's total tally.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,34,78,419

  • Total number of active cases: 3,18,181

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,27,15,015

  • Total deaths: 4,45,133

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 34,403

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 43,938

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 295

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 80,85,68,144

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 37,78,296

India To Get 30 Crore Doses Next Month: Health Minister

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the country expects to get over 30 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses next month. "The production will go up as Biological E & other companies are bringing their vaccines into the market," he was quoted as saying by ANI.

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