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New Delhi: India recorded 14,146 fresh COVID-19 infections in a day, the lowest daily increase in 229 days, while active cases declined to 1,95,846, according to Union Health Ministry data on Sunday. The lowest in 220 days.
The death toll rose to 4,52,124 with 144 more deaths. The country has recorded 3,40,67,719 Covid cases so far, it said.
In one day, the active cases declined by 5,786 and currently accounts for 0.57 per cent of the total infections. The national Covid recovery rate stood at 98.10 per cent, showed data updated at 8 am.
A total of 11,00,123 tests were conducted on Saturday, taking the cumulative tests conducted so far for the detection of COVID-19 in the country to 59,09,35,381.
The ministry said that the number of people recovering from the disease rose to 3,34,19,749, while the death rate stood at 1.33 per cent.
The weekly positivity rate (1.42 per cent) has been less than 3 per cent for the last 114 days and the daily positivity rate (1.29 per cent) has been less than 3 per cent for 48 days.
Under the nationwide vaccination campaign, more than 97.65 crore doses of Kovid vaccine have been given in the country.
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 June.
The 144 new people include 57 from Kerala, 26 from Maharashtra and 15 from Tamil Nadu.
Of the total Covid deaths recorded in the country, 1,39,760 are from Maharashtra, 37,937 from Karnataka, 35,884 from Tamil Nadu, 26,791 from Kerala, 25,089 from Delhi, 22,898 from Uttar Pradesh and 18,963 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. State wise distribution of data is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
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