{"id":336853,"date":"2022-04-08T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=336853"},"modified":"2022-04-11T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:30:37","slug":"india-reports-1109-new-covid-cases-43-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-reports-1109-new-covid-cases-43-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"India reports 1109 new Covid cases, 43 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0India on Friday reported a marginal increase with 1109 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, against the 1,033 infections reported a day earlier, the Union Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the same period, 43 additional Covid-19 deaths increased the overall death toll to 5, 21,573.<\/p>\n<p>Following a continuous downward trend, India&#8217;s active caseload has declined to 11,492, with active cases now accounting for 0.03 per cent of the country&#8217;s total positive cases.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1213 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative to 4,25,00, 002. Consequently, India&#8217;s recovery rate stands at 98.76 %.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the same period, a total of 4,53,582 tests were conducted across the country, which increased the total to 79.29 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a sustained fall, the weekly positivity rate in the country currently stands at 0.23 %, while the daily positivity rate is also reported to be 0.24 %.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday morning, India&#8217;s Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 185.38 crore. This has been achieved through 2,23,73,869 sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2.11 crore adolescents have been administered with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine since the beginning of the inoculation drive for this age bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0India on Friday reported a marginal increase with 1109 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, against the 1,033 infections reported a day earlier, the Union Health Ministry said. Also in the same period, 43 additional Covid-19 deaths increased the overall death toll to 5, 21,573. Following a continuous downward trend, India&#8217;s active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336854,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336853\/revisions\/336854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/336408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}