India on Saturday had provided COVID vaccination to over 80 lakh beneficiaries (80,52,454) till 6 p.m. and also started the second dose of vaccination drive.
The country has reported 103 deaths in the last 24 hours with six States accounting for 80.58% of the new deaths. Maharashtra registered the maximum number of casualties (36). Kerala came next with 18 daily deaths, while Karnataka and Punjab reported eights deaths each, as per information released by the Health Ministry.
It added that in the last 24 hours, 17 States/UTs including Telangana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Ladakh and Mizoram have not reported any new deaths.
India’s total active caseload currently stands at 1.36 lakh and a total of 1.06 crore (1,06,00,625) people have recovered so far. In the last 24 hours, 11,395 patients have recovered and got discharged.
