New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) India reported 1,957 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, against 2,424 Covid cases recorded on the previous day, said the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday.
In the same period, the country has recorded eight more Covid related deaths, taking the death toll to 5,28,822 as per the report.
Meanwhile, the active caseload presently stands at 27,374 cases, accounting for 0.06 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
The recovery of 2,654 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,40,60,198. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.75 per cent.
Meanwhile, India's daily positivity rate has been reported to be 0.71 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate currently also stands at 1.21 per cent.
Also in the same period, a total of 2,76,125 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 89.73 crore.
As of Tuesday morning, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 219.04 crore.
Over 4.10 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of vaccination drive for this age bracket.
The police have also recovered an illegal weapon and live cartridge from the criminal. The accused has been identified as Aakash, a native of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
The Punjab Police informed Delhi Police that the location of one of the phone numbers was traced to Delhi, and that the accused were changing their locations frequently. Acting on the tip-off, Delhi Police followed the leads obtained through technical surveillance and digital footprints.
SSP Mohali, Vivek Sheel Soni said, the two accused identified as Gagandeep Singh alias Gaagi and Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi are residents of Dabbwali in Sirsa district of Haryana.
The Punjab police will take him by a bulletproof car which will be escorted by a dozen cars full of cops. More than 50 police personnel will escort the vehicles to make sure no untoward incident takes place.
Badal said immediately after becoming the Chief Minister, Mann "had not only sublet governance of the state" to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal but had also failed to conduct a thanksgiving tour of his constituency as well as the Sangrur parliamentary seat that had elected him to the Lok Sabha twice.
