India Logs Less Than 30K New Covid Cases First Time In 3 Months
After nearly three months, India recorded a dip in the daily rise of Covid-19 cases with 29,689 fresh cases recorded in the last 24 hours on Tuesday. India’s active caseload dropped below 4,00,000 after 124 days with less than 30k cases being reported for the first time in 132 days.
The current total tally of Covid cases in India stands at 3,14,40,951 while the death toll climbed to 4,21,382 with 415 daily fatalities, as per data by the Union Ministry of Health.
The active cases have declined to 3,98,100 and comprise 1.27 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 97.39 per cent.
The number of active cases fell by 13,089 in a span of 24 hours.
As many as 17,20,110 COVID-19 tests were conducted on Monday, taking the total number of tests conducted so far to 45,91,64,121.
The daily positivity rate has declined to 1.73 per cent. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.33 per cent, the ministry data stated.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,06,21,469, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent, it said.
The total number of vaccine doses administered so far has reached 44.19 crore under the nationwide vaccination drive.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4 and 3 crore on June 23.
(With inputs from PTI)
