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New Delhi: India’s Covid tally rose to 3,44,66,598 with 10,197 fresh cases on Wednesday, while active cases declined to 1,28,555, the lowest in 527 days, according to data from the Union Health Ministry.
The death toll rose to 4,64,153 after 301 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, showed data updated at 8 am.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 40 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 143 consecutive days.
The Health Ministry said that the active cases have come down to 1,28,555, comprising 0.37 per cent of the total infections, which is the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.28 per cent, up from March 2020. Most since.
A decrease of 2,238 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in the 24-hour period.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.82 per cent. It is less than 2 per cent for the last 44 days.
The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 0.96 per cent. According to the ministry, it has been below 2 per cent for the last 54 days.
The number of people recovering from the disease rose to 3,38,73,890, while the death rate was recorded at 1.35 percent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign have exceeded 113.68 crores.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on 23 August, 40 lakh on 5 September and 50 lakh on 16 September. It had crossed 60 lakh on 28 September, 70 lakh on 11 October. 80 lakh on 29 October, 90 lakh on 20 November and crossed the one crore mark on 19 December.
India crossed the grim milestone of 20 million on 4 May and 30 million on 23 June.
301 new people include 210 from Kerala and 34 from Maharashtra.
A Kerala government statement on Tuesday said that out of 210 deaths, 39 were reported in the past few days and 171 were due to COVID-19 deaths after receiving an appeal based on the new guidelines of the Center and directions of the Supreme Court. was designated as.
A total of 4,64,153 people have died in the country so far, including 1,40,636 from Maharashtra, 38,153 from Karnataka, 36,311 from Tamil Nadu, 36,087 from Kerala, 25,095 from Delhi, 22,909 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,333 from West Bengal. .
The health ministry insisted that over 70 per cent of the deaths were due to comorbidities.
“Our data is being collated with the Indian Council of Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website. The state wise distribution of data is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
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