India reported 1,259 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours as the number of active infections continued to decline.
The fresh infections take the total tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country to 4,30,21,982.
The country also reported a total of 35 COVID-19 deaths which took the death toll to 5, 21, 070. Of these, 21 were backlog deaths added by Kerala as part of its data reconciliation exercise.
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Haryana and Kerala registered the highest COVID-19 deaths in the 24-hour period at four each followed by Mizoram which reported three fatalities.
The number of active cases in India has now come down to 15,378, down 481 from the previous day, and the active cases now comprise 0.04 percent of the total confirmed cases. All states and Union Territories including Kerala now have under 5,000 active infections each.
The country also registered 1,705 new recoveries in a day which increased the total recoveries to 4,24,85,534 while the recovery rate after the infectious disease shot to 98.75 percent.
A total of 5,77,559 tests to detect fresh infections were carried out in the 24 hour period, which raised the number of total tests to 78.79 crore.
The daily positivity rate in the country has now come down to 0.22 percent and the rolling average of the weekly positivity rate is 0.25 percent.
As per details shared by the health ministry, 183.53 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far in the nationwide coronavirus vaccination drive.
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