New Delhi, Jan 16 (UNI) On the first day of COVID-19 vaccination drive, 15,158 people tested positive in a day, surging the caseload to 1,05,42,841.
The country's death toll increased to 1,52,093 with 175 new fatalities. The COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent.
Six States/UTs account for 69.14 pc of new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (45). Kerala and West Bengal follow with 23 and 16 daily deaths, respectively.
The country now holds 1,01,79,715 recoveries, pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 96.56 per cent.
India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,05,42,841 with 15,158 people testing positive for the infection.
This day also sees India’s total Active Caseload (2,11,033) further slump to account for just 2 per cent of the total positive cases. The active cases were 2,10,120 last on 29th June 2021.
The total recoveries have crossed 96 per cent of the total cases, at 96.56 per cent.

As many as 2,11,033 cases are positive as on date, either in supervised home isolation or in hospitals.
The Recovery Rate has progressively shown a sustained climb. The gap between the total recovered cases and active cases has grown to 99,68,682 as on date.
As the active cases in the country follow a downward slide, 25 States and UTs are reporting less than 5,000 active cases. The caseload in these States/UTs constitutes just 15 per cent of total active cases 81.94 per cent of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
Kerala has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 4,603 newly recovered cases. 3,500 people recovered in Maharashtra in the past 24 hours followed by 1009 in Chhattisgarh.
A many as 80.81 per cent of the new cases are from 8 States and UTs.
Kerala continues to report the highest daily new cases at 5,624. It is followed by Maharashtra with 3,145 while West Bengal reported 708 new cases.
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