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India witnesses 1.14 lakh new Covid cases, 2667 deaths
New Delhi/IBNS: India recorded 1.14 lakh new Covid cases and 2,667 deaths over the last 24 hours.
The country's overall caseload now stands at 2.88 crores, while total fatalities are at 3.46 lakh, the union health ministry said in a statement.
The south Asian country's active caseload has dropped to 14.77 lakh, with 1.89 lakh people recovering from the infection in the last 24 hours.
The daily recoveries in the country have been outnumbering the daily cases for the 24th consecutive day now.
Meanwhile, the Centre on Saturday defended the liberalised vaccine policy, under which 50 per cent of the doses are supplied by it and the remaining are made available to the state governments and private sector directly, saying the media reports suggesting inequities in distribution of doses were "inaccurate and speculative in nature".
"It is reiterated that the Liberalised Vaccine policy, which envisages a larger role for the private sector and the centre, is setting aside 25% of vaccines for the private sector. This mechanism facilitates better access and reduces the operational stress on Government Vaccination facilities in terms of those who could afford to pay and would prefer to go to a private hospital," it had said in a statement.
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