new delhi the centre has provided more than 26 crore covid vaccine doses to states and uts so far the ministry of health and family welfare said on sunday more than 26 crore 266484350 vaccine doses have been provided to statesuts so far through the government of india free of cost channel and through the direct state procurement category of this the total consumption including wastages is 251266637 doses reads the official statement according to union health ministry more than 153 crore 15379233 covid vaccine doses are still available with the statesuts to be administered furthermore more than 4 lakh 448760 vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the statesuts within the next three days said the union health ministry notably implementation of the liberalized and accelerated phaseiiistrategy of covid 19 vaccination has started from may 1 2021 the union health ministry has informed that around 253195048 covid vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive with 80834 covid19 reported cases in the last 24 hours india continued its declining trend of new infections and reported the lowest singleday count in 71 days the union ministry of health and family welfare said on sunday the new cases pushed the covid case tally in the country to 29439989 india has been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload and the current active number of covid cases stands at 1026159 with a net decrease of 54531 cases in the last 24 hours the weekly positivity rate further dropped to less than 5 per cent and currently stands at 474 per cent while the daily positivity rate stands at 425 per cent today it has remained less than 10 per cent for 20 consecutive days now according to the union health ministry a total of 3303 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 370384 in the country as many as 132062 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries in the country to28043446 with this the recovery rate increases to 9526 per cent