India recorded 42,640 new Coronavirus infections, the lowest in 91 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday morning. The death toll climbed to 3,89,302 with a little over 1,100 daily fatalities, the lowest in 68 days. Active cases fell below 7 lakh to 6,62,521 after 79 days. While the Centre hailed the ‘historic milestone’ with the administration of 86.16 lakh doses on Monday, a day later, Andhra Pradesh said it was running very low on vaccines. » P10

On Sunday, 13.72 lakh vaccines were administered all over Andhra Pradesh, out of 14 lakh vaccines doses available in the state. In Krishna district, 1.36 lakh vaccine doses were administered on Sunday. However, the vaccination pace slowed down on Tuesday, said Mahesh Yarlagadda, medical officer at Labbipet Urban Primary Health Centre. For Tuesday, only 200 vaccine doses were available at the centre, where only second dose beneficiaries of Covaxin, aged 45 years and above, are being inoculated.