India has logged 8,013 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the active coronavirus cases in India, too, are now just above the 1 lakh mark, suggesting that Omicron-fuelled third wave in India may have nearly settled.
The new cases take the number of total confirmed coronavirus cases in the country to 4,29,24,130.
A total of 119 COVID-19 deaths were also registered, taking the official toll of fatalities due to the infectious disease to 5,13, 843. Kerala, meanwhile, continued to report backlog deaths as part of its data reconciliation exercise and registered 46 backlog deaths.
No state in the country, however, reported more than 20 deaths in the 24-hour period, even though Karnataka, registered the highest, 17, deaths, followed by Kerala and Odisha which logged 16 and 8 deaths respectively.
The active COVID-19 caseload in the country stands at 1,02,601—8,871 lower than the previous day. The active cases now comprise of 0.24 per cent of the total confirmed cases.
The daily test positivity rate in India is now 1.11 percent, while the rolling average of the weekly positivity rate is slightly higher at 1.17 percent.
As the states cumulatively registered 16,765 recoveries in the last 24 hours, it raised the total recoveries to 4,23,07,686 and the recovery rate reached 98.49 per cent.
The health ministry said that a total of 76.74 crore tests have been conducted in the country so far of which 7,23,828 tests were carried out in the last 24 hours.
Overall, 177.50 crore vaccine doses have also been administered so far under nationwide vaccination drive against coronavirus, as per the details shared.
The Centre also said that it has supplied 175.86 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses to states so far of which 12.89 crore doses are balance and unutilised.
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