India reported 1,839 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, according to data released by the Union health ministry on Monday. The country’s active Covid-19 cases have fallen to 25,178 from 27,212 reported a day earlier. The death toll has reached 5,31,692 with 11 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours. The total number of Covid-19 cases in India stands at 4.49 crore (4,49,71,469) while 4,44,14,599 people have recovered from the disease so far. The case fatality rate stands at 1.18 percent.
At present, the active cases account for only 0.06 percent of the total infections in the country. The national Covid-19 recovery rate is at 98.76 percent, as per the health ministry. India has administered 220.66 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.
According to the health department of the city government, Delhi recorded 119 fresh Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 5.5 percent and three Covid-linked deaths on Sunday. The case tally in Delhi has reached 20,40,115 and the death toll has risen to 26,644.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday decided to declassify the Covid-19 pandemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The decision was taken at the 15th meeting on Covid-19, where WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee addressed the pandemic. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus agreed that the PHEIC proclamation should be lifted.
Tedros stated, “For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend. This trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew it before Covid-19.” He added, “Yesterday, the emergency committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice.”
However, Tedros also mentioned that thousands of people around the world are still fighting for their lives in intensive care units, and millions more continue to suffer from the debilitating effects of post-Covid conditions.
