Coronavirus India Latest Updates: Daily Cases Fall To 26,000; Over 250 Deaths Reported

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

Members of the public wait in line to register for the Covid-19 Covishield vaccine. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)

India's active Covid-19 case load continued to decline as daily recoveries exceeded fresh cases for the third day in a row.

As many as 26,115 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. 21.

Active cases, at 3.09 lakh, constitute 0.92% of the total tally, which is the lowest since March last year.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,35,04,534

  • Total number of active cases: 3,09,575

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,27,49,574

  • Total deaths: 4,45,385

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 26,115

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 34,469

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 252

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 81,85,13,827

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 96,46,778

Over 96 lakh doses were administered under the nationwide drive to inoculate, taking India's total vaccination count over 81 crore.

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