New Delhi

India saw a considerable rise in daily Covid cases with 20,557 new infections in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning.

This is significantly higher than the previous day's fresh infections count of 15,528.

In the same period, 40 more deaths took the toll to 5,25,825 till date.

Meanwhile, the active caseload has marginally increased to 1,45,654 cases, accounting for 0.33 per cent of the country's total positive cases.

The Daily Positivity rate has also risen to 4.13 per cent, while the Weekly Positivity Rate currently stands at 4.64 per cent.

As of Wednesday morning, the Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 200.61 crores.

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The government is providing free booster dose to all adults for the next 75 days as part of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations.