India has logged 797 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in 225 days, while the number of active cases of the infection have 🐈been recorded at 4,091, the health ministry said on Friday.
Five newꦓ fatalities due to Covid-- two from Kerala and one each from Mahara𝔍shtra, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu -- have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am.
The country had recorded 865 new cases on May 19.
The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits till December 5, but the cases have again gone up a♌fter emergence of a new variant♏ and cold weather conditions.
The daily numbers wer🔯e in lakhs at the peak of the pandemic, which began in early 2020 and has seen more than 4.5 crore people getting infected and over 5.3 lakh deaths in about four years since then across the country.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease stands at over 4.4 crore with a national recovery rate of 98.81 per cent, acco𝓰rding to the ministry's website.
According to the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚwebsite, 220.67 crore doses of 🍬Covid vaccines have so far been administered in the country.
