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New Delhi: India added 8,954 new coronavirus infections, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,96,776, while active cases crossed one lakh after 547 days, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday. Even fewer were recorded.
The death toll rose to 4,69,247 with 267 fresh deaths, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 54 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 156 consecutive days.
The ministry said the active cases have come down to 99,023, comprising 0.29 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has risen to 98.36 per cent, the highest since March 2020. is more.
The active COVID-19 caseload has registered a decrease of 1,520 cases in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.81 percent. It is less than two per cent for the last 58 days. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 0.84 per cent. According to the ministry, it has been below one percent for the last 17 days.
The number of people recovering from the disease increased to 3,40,28,506, while the death rate was recorded at 1.36 percent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign have exceeded 124.10 crore.
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 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.
267 new people include 177 from Kerala and 35 from Maharashtra.
Out of 177 deaths in Kerala, 19 were designated as COVID-19 deaths in the last few days and 158 as COVID-19 deaths, after receiving an appeal based on fresh guidelines of the Center and directions of the Supreme Court, Kerala State Government was said in a release. Tuesday.
A total of 4,69,247 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 1,40,997 from Maharashtra, 40,132 from Kerala, 38,211 from Karnataka, 36,481 from Tamil Nadu, 25,098 from Delhi, 22,911 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,486 from West Bengal.
The ministry insisted that over 70 per cent of the deaths were due to co-morbidities.
“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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