India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have passed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive Covid-19 vaccination programme in the new year.
Additional cases in the past 24 hours dropped to 25,152 from a peak of nearly 100,000 in mid-September. The epidemic has infected nearly 1% of India’s more than 1.3 billion people, second to the worst-hit country in the world, the US. The health ministry on Saturday also reported 347 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 145,136.
