India saw a single day rise of 58,077 coronavirus infections, which took the tally of cases to 4,25,36,137, while the active cases have declined to 6,97,802, according to Union health ministry data updated on Friday.
This decision of revised time interval between two doses is applicable only to Covishield and not to Covaxin vaccine, the ministry said.
The death toll has climbed to 5,25,343 with 38 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The death toll climbed to 5,28,923 with 10 fatalities, which include six deaths reconciled by Kerala.
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Wednesday took potshots at the rival Shiv Sena over its minister not finding a place in the reconstituted NITI Aayog.
The active cases constituted 0.04 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent, the health ministry said.
The toll has climbed to 5,31,091 with 27 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.23 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was 1.44 per cent.
