On Friday, the country has reported 38,949 new cases of COVID-19 and 542 more fatalities in the last 24 hours. The total caseload has reached to 3,10,26,829 and 4,12,531 deaths, according to a health ministry release. However, the active cases have declined to 4,30,422, comprising 1.39 per cent of total infections. India's COVID-19 recovery rate now stands at 97.28 per cent. Recovered cases from the disease in the country stands at 3,01,83,876. So far, 39.53 crore vaccine doses are administered under the nationwide inoculation drive against COVID-19, according to the Centre.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday that "more dangerous" variants of Covid-19 could tear across the world as global infections soared to half a million daily, largely driven by the virulent Delta strain. "The pandemic is nowhere near finished," the WHO's emergency committee said in a statement.
The Union health ministry said that "states and Union territories have received more than 41.10 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses through all sources and over 52 lakh doses are in the transit", reported news agency ANI.
"Centre has filed an affidavit in Supreme Court stating that state governments must not permit the movement of Kanwariyas for bringing 'Ganga Jal' from Haridwar in view of COVID-19", reported news agency ANI.
The COVID-19 infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra raised by 435 to 5,39,395, an official said on Friday, reported news agency PTI.
Maharashtra's coronavirus caseload rose to 61,89,257 with the addition of 8,010 new infections on Thursday, while the death count jumped to 1,26,560 after 170 patients died due to the respiratory illness, a health department official said.