JAIPUR: Covid recovery rate has gone past the 99% mark with 49 more persons recovering from the virus taking the overall tally of recovered cases to 9,43,938.
In the last 24 hours, one person died and 26 were tested positive in the state which took the fatality count to 8,950 and overall tally to 9,53,360.
With the recovery rate reaching 99.1%, active cases have reduced to 472. Five districts, which currently have no active cases, are Bundi, Dholpur, Jalore, Karauli and Pratapgarh. Jaipur has the highest number of active cases at 120, followed by Alwar (52) and Jodhpur (44).
Out of 472 active cases, seventeen districts of the state have 83 active cases currently, which include Tonk (9), Ajmer (9), Hanumangarh (9), Rajsamand (8), Chittorgarh (6), Jaisalmer (6), Sirohi (6), Bharatpur (6), Jhunjhunu (5), Churu (5), Jhalawar(4), Bhilwara (3), Baran (2), Dungarpur (2), Pali (1), Sawai Madhopur (1), Banswara(1). The rest of other 11 districts have 389 active cases.
A senior health department official said they were focussing more on administrating Covid vaccine as cases have gone down significantly. The state received 51,780 doses of vaccines at Udaipur supplied by the Centre. Till 6 pm on Sunday, more than 2.8 lakh beneficiaries received the shot, out of which more than 2 lakh were first doses and 79,829 second.
