India records 43,071 new cases, 955 more deaths

Mangalore Today News Network / NDTV

New Delhi, Jul 04, 2021: India reported 44,111 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, slightly lower than Friday, and added 738 deaths. The country crossed a grim milestone of 4 lakh Covid deaths on Friday - the third after US and Brazil.

 

The active Covid cases have declined to 4.95 lakh in India - the number is below 5 lakh after 97 days. Active cases constitute 1.62 per cent of total infections.

Over 54,000 patients recovered in the last 24 hours taking total recoveries so far to over 2.96 crore. Daily recoveries continue to outnumber the new infections for the 51st consecutive day.

Meanwhile, Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin is overall 77.8 per cent effective against Covid, the vaccine maker said on Saturday in a statement, citing the data from the third phase of clinical trials. The data, however, is yet to be peer-reviewed.

The vaccine offers "65.2 per cent protection", it said, against the rapidly emerging Delta variant.

It was also found to be "93.4 per cent effective" against severe symptomatic COVID-19, the company said.

Covaxin is a whole virus inactivated vaccine against SARS-CoV2, developed by Bharat Biotech in partnership with ICMR and NIV Pune.