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New Delhi: According to the Union Health Ministry’s updated data on Sunday, India saw a one-day increase of 2,796 people with the reconciliation exercise of its Covid data in Bihar, taking the death toll in the country to 4,73,326, while 8,895 new Infections emerged.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in India has risen to 3,46,33,255, data updated at 8 am.
India had recorded 3,998 deaths in a single day on July 21, when Maharashtra carried out its 14th reconciliation exercise of Covid data.
For the high 2,796 fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said, 2,426 reconciled deaths by Bihar were adjusted in Sunday’s figures. Kerala also cleared the backlog of 263 deaths. Hence, the country’s death rate is showing a spike.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has remained below 50,000 for 161 days in a row.
Active cases stand at 99,155, comprising 0.29 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020. The health ministry said the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.35 per cent.
A decrease of 819 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in the 24-hour period.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.73 per cent. It is less than 2 per cent for the last 62 days.
The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 0.80 per cent. According to the Ministry of Health, it has remained below 1 percent for the last 21 days.
The number of people who have recovered from the disease has risen to 3,40,60,774, while the case fatality rate has risen to 1.37 per cent.
The cumulative dose of COVID-19 vaccine administered in the country has so far exceeded 127.61 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 COVID-19 cases on May 4 and 30 million on June 23 this year.
2,796 new people include 2,426 from Bihar, 315 from Kerala and 14 from Maharashtra.
Kerala has been collating deaths for the past few days, hence the death rate in the state is high.
The total 4,73,326 deaths reported in the country include 1,41,163 from Maharashtra, 41,439 from Kerala, 38,224 from Karnataka, 36,519 from Tamil Nadu, 25,098 from Delhi, 22,911 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,534 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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