This comes as the daily new cases in India have increased by 20% since yesterday. With 16,156 new Covid cases in a 24-hour period, the country’s total caseload now stands at 3,42,31,809.
According to the data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Thursday, active Covid-19 cases came down to 1,60,989, the lowest in 243 days.
The death toll rose to 4,56,386 with 733 fresh deaths, including 622 from Kerala, according to the data updated at 8 am.
Of the 622 deaths in Kerala, 93 were recorded in the last few days, 330 were not confirmed till June 18 last year due to lack of sufficient documentation and 99 were Covid deaths after receiving an appeal based on the new guidelines. was designated as. The directions of the Center and the Supreme Court, said a release from the state government.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 34 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 123 consecutive days, the ministry said.
Active cases comprise 0.47 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.20 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
A decrease of 1,672 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in the 24-hour period.
According to ICMR, 12,90,900 tests were conducted on Wednesday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for the detection of COVID-19 in the country to 60,44,98,405.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.25 per cent. It is less than two per cent for the last 24 days. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry, it has been below two per cent for the last 34 days.
The number of people recovering from the disease increased to 3,36,14,434, while the death rate was recorded at 1.33 percent.
The cumulative dose administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign has exceeded 104.04 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.
A total of 4,56,386 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 1,40,098 from Maharashtra, 38,037 from Karnataka, 36,060 from Tamil Nadu, 29,977 from Kerala, 25,091 from Delhi, 22,899 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,096 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. State wise distribution of data is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
with agency input
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