In a significant development, India's cumulative vaccination coverage has exceeded 28 Crores on Sunday. A total of 28,00,36,898 vaccine doses have been administered through 38,24,408 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am Monday as 30,39,996 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.

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These include:

HCWs 1st Dose 1,01,25,143
2nd Dose 70,72,595
FLWs 1st Dose 1,71,73,646
2nd Dose 90,51,173
Age Group 18-44 years 1st Dose 5,59,54,551
2nd Dose 12,63,242
Age Group 45-59 years 1st Dose 8,07,11,132
2nd Dose 1,27,56,299
Over 60 years 1st Dose 6,47,77,302
2nd Dose 2,11,51,815
Total 28,00,36,898

The new phase of universalization of COVID19 vaccination commences from Monday. The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID19 vaccination throughout the country. The nationwide COVID19 Vaccination program was launched on 16th Jan 2021.

India has reported 53,256 daily new cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest since 88 days.India continues to report a sustained slide in the daily new COVID-19 cases.

Less than 1 lakh daily new Cases have been reported for 14 continuous days now. 

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India has also been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload. The country's Active Caseload today stands at 7,02,887 on Monday. A net decline of 26,356is witnessed in the last 24 hours and active cases are now only 2.35% of the country's total Positive Cases.

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As more people are getting recovered from COVID-19 infection, India's Daily Recoveries continue to outnumber the Daily New Cases for 39 consecutive days now and 78,190 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours.

Nearly 25,000 (24,934) more recoveries were reported during the last 24 hours as compared to the daily new cases.

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Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,88,44,199people have already recovered from COVID-19 and 78,190 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours. This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 96.36%, which is showing a sustained increasing trend.

With substantially ramped up testing capacity across the country, a total of 13,88,699 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country. Cumulatively, India has conducted over 39.24 crore (39,24,07,782) tests so far.

While on one side testing has been enhanced across the country, a continued decline in weekly case positivity is noticed. The weekly Positivity Rate is currently at 3.32% while the Daily Positivity rate stands at 3.83% Monday. It has remained less than 5% for 14 consecutive days now, said a statement.