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New Delhi: India recorded 6,822 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 558 days, taking the country’s tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,46,48,383, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. While the active cases decreased to 95,014.
The death toll rose to 4,73,757 with 220 fresh deaths, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been recorded below 10,000 for 11 consecutive days and now less than 50,000 cases have been reported for 163 consecutive days.
The ministry said that active cases account for 0.27 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.36 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
A decrease of 3,402 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in the 24-hour period.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.63 per cent. For the last 64 days, it is less than two per cent. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 0.78 per cent. According to the ministry, it has been below one per cent for the last 23 days.
The number of people recovering from the disease rose to 3,40,79,612, while the death rate was recorded at 1.37 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign have exceeded 128.76 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.
Among the 220 new people, 168 are from Kerala and 10 from Tamil Nadu.
Of the 168 deaths reported in Kerala on Monday, 30 were recorded in the past few days and 138 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving an appeal based on the Centre’s fresh guidelines and the Supreme Court’s directions.
A total of 4,73,757 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 1,41,175 from Maharashtra, 41,768 from Kerala, 38,237 from Karnataka, 36,539 from Tamil Nadu, 25,099 from Delhi, 22,911 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,553 from West Bengal.
The ministry insisted that more than 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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