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New Delhi: India recorded 6,990 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 551 days, taking the country’s total COVID-19 cases to 3,45,87,822, while active cases dropped to 1,00,543, which Lowest in 546 days. Figures from the Union Health Ministry were updated on Tuesday.
The death toll rose to 4,68,980 with 190 fresh deaths, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 53 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 155 consecutive days.
The Health Ministry said that active cases comprise 0.29 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has risen to 98.35 per cent, the lowest since March 2020. is the most.
A decrease of 3,316 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in the 24-hour period.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.69 per cent. It is less than 2 per cent for the last 57 days.
The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 0.84 per cent. According to the Ministry of Health, it has been below 1 percent for the last 16 days.
The number of people recovering from the disease has increased to 3,40,18,299, while the death rate has been recorded at 1.36 percent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign have exceeded 123.25 crores.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed 20 lakh on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It crossed 60 lakhs on 28th September, 70 lakhs on 11th October, 80 lakhs on 29th October, 90 lakhs on 20th November and one crore on 19th December.
India crossed the grim milestone of 20 million on 4 May and 30 million on 23 June.
The 190 new people include 117 from Kerala and 21 from Maharashtra.
A Kerala state government release said that out of 117 deaths, 59 were reported as COVID-19 deaths in the last few days and 58 after receiving an appeal based on fresh guidelines of the Center and directions of the Supreme Court. was named in.
A total of 4,68,980 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 1,40,962 from Maharashtra, 39,955 from Kerala, 38,203 from Karnataka, 36,472 from Tamil Nadu, 25,098 from Delhi, 22,910 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,473 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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