Many hospitals across the country held drills on December 27, 2022 to check preparedness of health facilities to deal with any spurt in COVID-19 cases, reported news agency Press Trust of India.
- The global tally for cases positive to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was at 662,411,909 December 27, 2022 at 4.30pm, according to private aggregator Worldometers.info.
- The ensuing disease (COVD-19) has killed 6,687,668 people around the world.
- The number of active cases was 20,752,300; 0.2 per cent of them remained ‘serious’ or ‘critical’.
- India logged 157 new COVID-19 cases December 27, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
A chart of COVID-19 cases in India from March 1, 2020. Chart: Our World In Data
- The country now has 3,421 active cases or 0.1 per cent positivity rate.
- The total infection tally in the country stands at 44,677,459.
- A total of 530,696 deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported in India.
- A total of 97,622 people received vaccination shots for COVID-19.
- The cumulative vaccination numbers now stand at 2,200,643,689.
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