India reported 1,685 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours continuing with its trend of clocking less than 2,000 daily cases for the last six days.
The fresh number of infections takes the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country to 4,30,16,372.
The number of active cases has now come down to 21,530 - down 897 from the previous day - and the active cases now constitute 0.05 percent of the total confirmed cases.
A total of 83 deaths due to the infectious disease were also added during the day, taking the total death toll to 5,16,755. Out of these, 64 were backlog deaths added by Kerela as part of its data reconciliation exercise.
Kerala, at 10, reported the highest number of deaths in the 24-hour period, followed by Maharashtra with three fatalities. Most of the states and UTs, however, did not register any death in the last 24 hours.
India also saw a total of 2,499 recoveries following the infection in a day which took the total recoveries to 4,24, 78,087 and the cumulative recovery rate to 98.75 percent.
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The number of tests confirmed in 24 hours were 6,91, 425 which took the total tests in the country to detect fresh infections to 78.56 crore. The daily test positivity rate in India is now 0.24 percent, while the rolling average of the weekly positivity rate is 0.33 percent.
As per the details shared by the health ministry, 182.55 crore COVId-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the country so far.
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