India on Friday (May 27, 2022) saw a one-day increase of 2,710 new coronavirus infections, taking the number of infections to 4,31,47,530, according to data from the Union Health Ministry. With this, the number of active cases in the country increased to 15,814. India’s Covid-19 death toll rose to 5,24,539 with 14 more fatalities today. In the last 24 hours, the active COVID-19 caseload has increased by 400 cases.
According to the health ministry, active cases accounted for 0.04 percent of total infections, with a national Covid-19 recovery rate of 98.75 percent.
According to the health ministry, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.58 percent and the weekly positivity rate at 0.52 percent.
On the other hand, the number of people recovering from the disease rose to 4,26,07,177, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.22 percent.
The cumulative dose administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign has exceeded 192.97 crores.
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Meanwhile, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 527.8 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, while deaths have exceeded 6.28 million and vaccinations have exceeded 11.37 billion.
According to CSSE, the US remains the most affected country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 83,837,114 and 1,004,121. India accounts for the second largest caseload at 43,144,820.
Other countries with more than 10 million cases are Brazil (30,880,512), France (29,626,9923), Germany (26,200,663), UK (22,458,340), South Korea (18,053,287), Russia (18,043,539), Italy (17,333,299), Turkey (15,068,094) , Spain (12,280,345) and Vietnam (10,714,008).
