India's New Covid Cases Outnumber Daily Recoveries, Registers Over 40K Infections In Last 24 Hrs

<p><strong><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Covid Update:&nbsp;</span></strong><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">India reports 40,134 new Covid 19 cases, 36,946 discharges &amp; 422 deaths in last 24 hours as per Union Health Ministry. </span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Total cases: 3,16,95,958 </span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Total discharges: 3,08,57,467</span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> Death toll: 4,24,773 </span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Active cases: 4,13,718 </span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Total Vaccination: 47,22,23,639 (17,06,598 in last 24 hours)</span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The Indian Council of Medical Research informed that 46,96,45,494 samples were tested till 1st August 2021, for Covid 19</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">. Of these 14,28,984 samples were tested yesterday.</span></p> <h3><strong>Bhubaneshwar achieves 100% vaccination target</strong></h3> <p class="artconfp">Odisha's Bhubaneswar has achieved the milestone of becoming the first city&nbsp;in the country to achieve 100 per cent vaccination coverage against COVID-19, informed Anshuman Rath, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Zonal Deputy Commissioner of South-East, Bhubaneswar.&nbsp;</p> <p>"We had set a target to complete vaccination in a specific timeline. BMC has a record of around nine lakh people who are above 18 years of age in the city. Which includes around 31 thousand healthcare workers, 33 thousand front-line workers. 5 lakh 17 thousand people are in the age group of 18 to 44 years. 3 lakh 25 thousand people are above 45 years of age. We had set a benchmark for these categories to complete their vaccination in the specific timeline by July 31."&nbsp;Anshuman Rath told news agency ANI.</p> <p>"As per the report, we have already vaccinated 18 lakh 16 thousand people in the city. Only a few people were not being able to take first does due to various reasons. There is a migrating population, who is working in their office in Bhubaneswar and getting the first jab of Covaxin." he said.</p>

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