As shown by the Union health ministry’s dashboard on Thursday morning, in the preceding 24 hours, India reported 12,923 new cases of Covid-19 as the country’s overall tally rose to 10,871,294. However, in a slight departure from the recent trend, the country’s new active cases witnessed a spike at 1,051- as they rose marginally to 142,562 or 1.30% of total cases, as per the health ministry.

As per the latest health ministry figures, the total number of recoveries rose to 10,573,372 or 97.27% of the national tally as 11,764 more patients were discharged in the last 24 hours. Also, in the same period, 108 fresh fatalities were reported, taking India’s Covid-19 related death toll to 155,360 or 1.43% of total cases. India’s previous single-day death count was 94, while 78 fatalities were reported before that.

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On the vaccination front, more than 7 million people have been vaccinated thus far, the dashboard further showed, with 7,017,114 having been inoculated against the disease. India began what is the world’s largest vaccination drive against Covid-19 on January 16. Oxford University-AstraZeneca’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech International Limited’s Covaxin are being used in the vaccination drive.

Also on Wednesday, the GOI-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that the country’s new positive cases were from 699, 185 samples tested by it on February 10. ICMR added that the total number of tests in India, currently stands at 204,023,840.