COVID-19: India recorded 11,499 new coronavirus cases and 255 fatalities over the last 24 hours

COVID-19 Cases in India News: On Saturday, India recorded 11,499 new coronavirus cases and 255 deaths over the last 24 hours, as per the data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 

India's active caseload currently stands at 1,21,881. Furthermore, there have been 23,598 recoveries in the last 24 hours that took the total number of recoveries to 4,22,70,482.

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On the vaccination frontier, 177.13 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive. 

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7 last year, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.

It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.

India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.

The 255 new fatalities include 177 from Kerala and 15 from Karnataka.

A total of 5,13,481 deaths have been reported so far in the country, including 1,43,687 from Maharashtra, 64,980 from Kerala, 39,900 from Karnataka, 38,000 from Tamil Nadu, 26,117 from Delhi, 23,447 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,169 from West Bengal.

The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

"Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research," the ministry said on its website, adding that state-wise distribution of the figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation.