India has recorded 58,077 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, down from 67,084 daily cases a day before. This marks a 13.4 percent decline in the fresh infections in a day.
The fresh number of confirmed COVID-19 infection take the tally of confirmed cases in the country to 4,25,36, 137.
With 657 deaths registered in a day, the death toll due to the infectious disease has now reached 5,07, 177 while the COVID-19 mortality rate nationally stands at 1.2 percent.
Of these, 153 were the backlog deaths from Kerala which, at 188, also reported the highest COVID-19 fatalities in day. The second highest deaths, 45, were reported from Maharashtra while Karnataka reported 39 deaths in a day.
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The number of active cases in the country now stands at 6,97, 802, down from 7,90,789 cases a day before. In percentage terms, it means a fall of 11.7 percent within the 24-hour period. Kerala which has the highest number of active COVID-19 cases in the country—2,33, 747, also reported the biggest dip of 25,207 in this figure.
Continuing the trend of fall in the test positivity rate, the daily COVID-19 positivity rate has come down to 3.89 percent, from 4.44 percent on February 10 while the rolling average of the weekly positivity rate now stands at 5.76 percent.
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According to the statistics shared by the Health Ministry, 1,50,407 recoveries were also reported in the last 24 hours, raising the total recoveries to 4,13,31,158, which are now 97.17 percent of the total confirmed cases.
A total of 74.78 crore COVID-19 tests have been carried out in the country so far, of which 14,91, 678 tests were conducted in the 24-hour period.
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