India’s daily caseload of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) witnessed a further dip, as 120,529 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) data, updated at 8am on Saturday, showed. With this, the national infection tally has risen to 28,694,879, the data showed further. Active cases, meanwhile, fell to 1,555,248, a decline of 80,745 infections from the previous bulletin, and comprise 5.42% of the overall caseload. With this, the number of samples tested thus far has reached 361,174,142, the ICMR data showed. Also on Friday, Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to manufacture the Russian-made Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine.

Source: Hindustan Times June 05, 2021 04:07 UTC