New Delhi: India registered more than 1.60 lakh COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day, in accordance to the official figures launched on Tuesday (April 13, 2021) morning. India recorded 1,61,736 new COVID-19 infections previously 24 hours, in addition to 97,168 recoveries and 879 deaths.
The nation’s total coronavirus tally has now climbed to 1.36 crore, of which, 12.6 lakh are at present lively cases. A total of 1,22,53,697 individuals have recovered thus far, whereas, 1,71,058 have died of the virus.
Earlier on Monday, India’s COVID-19 caseload was elevated by 1.68 lakh. The current sudden surge in COVID-19 cases has now made India the second-worst-coronavirus hit nation the world over. It overtook Brazil on Monday and is now behind the United States which has thus far reported 3,12,67,359 COVID-19 cases.
Meanwhile, the total variety of vaccination has touched 10.85 crore. This comes a day after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) accredited the emergency use authorisation of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. This is to be famous that the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has introduced that it’s aiming to produce more than 850 million doses per 12 months in India.
“Over 850 million doses of Sputnik V are going to be produced in India annually sufficient to vaccinate more than 425 million people around the world,” the RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev stated in a press assertion.
Sputnik V, notably, is likely one of the three coronavirus vaccines registered by India’s regulatory authorities.
The RDIF additionally knowledgeable that India has turn into the sixtieth nation to approve Sputnik V and is essentially the most populated nation to register the Russian vaccine.
