Active Covid cases in country increase to 1,61,555
With 14,313 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India’s total tally of Covid cases rose to 3,42,60,470, while the active cases were recorded at 1,61,555, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.
The death toll climbed to 4,57,740 with 549 more fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 36 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 125 consecutive days now.
The active cases comprise 0.47 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national Covid recovery rate was recorded at 98.19 per cent, the ministry said.
An increase of 221 cases has been recorded in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,36,41,175, while the case fatality rate has increased to 1.34 per cent.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.22 per cent. It has been less than 2 per cent for the last 26 days.
The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.18 per cent. It has been below 2 per cent for the last 36 days, according to the health ministry.
The 549 new fatalities include 471 from Kerala and 36 from Maharashtra.
Kerala has been reconciling Covid deaths for the last few days, hence the death tally of the state is high.
Of the 471 deaths, 86 were reported in the last few days, 276 were those which were not confirmed until June 18 last year due to lack of adequate documentation and 109 were designated as Covid deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and Supreme Court directions, a state government release said on Friday.
A total of 4,57,740 deaths have been reported so far in the country, including 1,40,170 from Maharashtra, 38,061 from Karnataka, 36,083 from Tamil Nadu, 31,156 from Kerala, 25,091 from Delhi, 22,900 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,113 from West Bengal. PTI
