India has reported 4,575 new COVID-19 cases, a tad higher than the daily cases reported on the previous day but the active coronavirus cases continued to hover below 50,000. The new cases take the number of total confirmed tally in the country to 4,29,75,883.
A total of 145 COVID-19 deaths were also registered, taking the toll due to the infectious disease to 5,15,355. Kerala continued to report backlog deaths as part of its data reconciliation exercise registering 100 backlog deaths.
Kerala also registered the highest deaths at 11 in the 24-hour period, followed by Uttar Pradesh (9) and Karnataka (8). Majority of the states and UTs, however, recorded no deaths during the day.
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The active COVID-19 caseload in the country now stands at 46,962—down nearly 6 percent from the previous day and 0.12 percent of the total confirmed cases. Active coronavirus cases in Kerala, which has the highest caseload in the country, stands at 13, 493.
The daily test positivity rate in India stood at 0.51 percent, while the rolling average of the weekly positivity rate came down to 0.62 percent.
States cumulatively registered 7,416 recoveries in the last 24 hours, raising total recoveries to 4,24,13,566 with the recovery rate reaching 98.69 percent.
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The health ministry said that a total of 77.52 crore tests have been conducted in the country so far of which 8,97,904 tests were carried out in the last 24 hours.
Overall, 179.33 crore vaccine doses have also been administered under the nationwide vaccination drive against coronavirus, as per details shared.
The government also said that more than 180.30 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been provided to the states so far of which 15.80 crore doses are balance and utilised doses.
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