India's daily positivity rate has also risen to 4.42 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 4.51 per cent.
With the fresh addition, the State’s Covid-19 tally has increased to 13,04,369.
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PM Modi sent appreciation letters to them, which can be downloaded from their CoWIN login ID.
The death toll climbed to 5,25,825 with 40 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active caseload has marginally declined to 1,43,654 cases, accounting for 0.33 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
Meanwhile, the Daily Positivity rate has declined to 4.58 per cent, while the Weekly Positivity Rate currently stands at 6.48 per cent.
It took 277 days to reach the earlier milestone of 100 crore doses.
The active caseload has also risen to 1,43,449 cases, accounting for 0.33 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
According to a report, hundreds of people thronged at the centre from as early as 5 am today morning to get booster dose.
In the same period, 56 fatalities took the nationwide death toll to 5,25,660.
According to Swaminathan, all new Covid variants in the future will be more transmissible and capable of evading immunity that can result in increased illness and hospitalisations.
On July 5, the State had registered 334 fresh daily Covid cases. Today, it recorded 1,043 new cases, registering a significant jump.
Khordha continues to post the biggest spike in the number of infections with the district on Wednesday reporting 303 cases. As many as 115 cases have also been detected from Cuttack
So far, less than 1 per cent of the target population of 77 crore in the 18-59 age group have been administered the precaution dose.
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