India sees slight decline in Covid cases with 9,531 new infections

drop in cases This comes a day after 11,539 cases were reported in the country on Sunday.

According to the Union Health Ministry data, the number of active cases came down to 97,648.

The toll due to COVID-19 rose to 5,27,368 with 26 more fatalities, including 10 deaths reconciled by Kerala, data updated at 8 am.

The ministry said that active cases comprise 0.22 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate stands at 98.59 per cent.

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 4.15 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 3.59 per cent, the ministry said.

A total of 88.27 crore tests have been conducted so far with 2,29,546 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.

It added that the number of people cured of the disease rose to 4,37,23,944, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.19 per cent.

So far 210.02 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country under the nationwide vaccination campaign.

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 May 4, 30 million on June 23 last year and 40 million on January 25 this year.

The latest deaths include four each from Rajasthan and West Bengal, two each from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Manipur, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.

(with inputs from PTI)

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