NEW DELHI: India Covid Updates: India reported 10,256 new Covid-19 cases and 68 deaths, in the last 24 hours,  the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. With this, the nationwide death toll has now increased to 5,27,556.

The active caseload declined to 90,707, accounting for 0.20 percent of the country's total positive cases. The recovery of 13,528 patients in the last 24 hours took the total tally to 4,37,70,913. With this effect, India's recovery rate stands at 98.61 percent.

While the daily positivity rate marginally declined to 2.43 percent, the weekly positivity rate stood at 3.02 percent, the Health ministry said.

Also in the corresponding period, a total of 4,22,322 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 88.43 crore.

As of Friday, August 26, morning, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage surpassed 211.13 crore, achieved through 2,81,13,254 sessions Over 4.01 crore adolescents have been given a first dose of Covid-19 vaccination since the beginning of the vaccination drive for this age bracket.

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