India records 184,372 new Covid-19 cases, 1027 deaths

People wearing protective masks walk in a line at a railway station amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India 9 April 2021.
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India reported over 184,000 (1.84 lakh) new Covid-19 cases and more than 1,000 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the country’s health ministry on Wednesday.

In the last 24 hours, 1,027 Covid-related deaths were reported in the country taking the death toll to 172,085. As many as 184,372 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in India in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of cases has gone up to 13,873,825. India had recorded 879 deaths yesterday.

The active number of cases stands at 1,365,704.

In the last 24 hours, 82,339 people recovered from the disease. With this, the total recoveries reached 12,336,036.

The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country stands at 111,179,578 till Wednesday.

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approved the use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in the country on Monday. Now, India has three vaccines Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V for its inoculation programme against Covid-19.

Meanwhile, the four-day-long 'Tika Utsav', a mass Covid-19 vaccine programme, started in the country on Sunday will come to an end on Wednesday.

From 2 April, the government started vaccinating all people above 45 years. India started its vaccination drive on 16 January with priority given to all healthcare and frontline workers in the first phase. The second phase started on 1 March where doses were administered to people above the age of 60 and those between 45 and 59 years with specific comorbidities.