The country has registered thousand eight hundred and five new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. The Union Health Ministry stated that nine hundred and thirty-two people recovered during the same period. The recovery rate is currently at 98.79 percent. India's active caseload currently stands at over ten thousand and it stands at 0.02 percent. The Ministry said, over thousand seven hundred vaccine doses of COVID were administered during the last 24 hours under the nationwide vaccination drive. So far, over 220 crores 65 lakh vaccine doses were administered across the country. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan today in the evening will hold a meeting with States' health secretaries and senior officers through video conferencing, to review the preparedness for COVID-19. This high-level review meeting comes in the backdrop of a spike in Influenza and Covid-19 cases in the country in the past weeks. Recently the Union Health Secretary and ICMR Directorate General Dr. Rajiv Bahl issued a letter to the States and Union Territories chief secretaries and Senior Health Officers regarding keeping a close watch on the evolving causes of diseases related to influenza virus. Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also chaired a high-level meeting to assess the Covid-19 and Influenza situation in the country. During the meeting, he assessed the preparedness of health infrastructure and logistics, status of the vaccination campaign, emergence of new Covid-19 variants and Influenza types and their public health implications for the country.
