Agencies
New Delhi: India added 1,20,529 new COVID-19 and 3,380 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry on Saturday (June 5, 2021).
With this, the total number of cases in the country increased to 2,86,94,879, while the death toll mounted to 3,44,082. India now has 15,55,248 active cases.
On the other hand, nearly 2 lakh people were discharged between Friday and Saturday morning. The country has so far seen 2,67,95,549 people recovering from the virus.
India has also administered over 22 crore coronavirus vaccines.
Earlier on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review the progress of India's COVID-19 vaccination drive and directed officials to bring down vaccine wastage.The Prime Minister stated that the coronavirus vaccine wastage numbers are still on the higher side in the country and that steps need to be taken to bring them down.
The meeting was attended by several Union Ministers including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman. |
