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© Provided by Hindustan Times Thane: People get inoculated against Covid-19 as vaccination continues at a Thane’s CR Wadia Hospital. (HT Photo/Praful Gangurde)India’s daily Covid-19 cases remained below the 5,000-mark on Saturday, as 3,614 people tested positive for the viral disease in the last 24 hours, data released by the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) showed. With this, the country’s cumulative infection tally has risen to 42,987,875, as per the data.
The dashboard also showed that there were as many as 5,185 recoveries during this period, pushing the total number of recovered cases to 42,431,513. There were 89 related fatalities as well, with the cumulative toll rising to 515,803. However, significantly, active cases continued to dip, and are currently at 40,559, down from 42,219 a day ago, a fall of 1660 cases.
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Recoveries, deaths and active cases constitute 98.71 per cent, 1.20 per cent and 0.09 per cent of the overall caseload, according to the data.
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