India has reported 2,539 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, down 12 percent compared to infections reported on the previous day. This is the fourth day in a row that new cases have stayed below 5,000. The fresh tally takes the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the country to 4,30,01,477.
A total of 60 new deaths due to the infectious disease were also recorded, raising the number of COVID-19 fatalities to 5,16,132. Of these new deaths, 38 were backlog deaths reported by Kerala as part of its data reconciliation exercise.
Kerala, at 12, also reported the highest coronavirus related deaths in the last 24 hours, followed by Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal which registered 2 fatalities each in a day. Majority of the states and UTs, however, did not report any COVID-19 deaths during the period.
The country’s active caseload has now fallen to 30, 799, down 2,012 from the previous day and active cases constitute 0.07 percent of the total confirmed cases. Kerala, at 8,359, has the highest active COVID-19 caseload in India.
In the 24-hour period, a total of 4,491 recoveries were added taking the total recoveries to 4,24, 54, 546 while the recovery rate touched 98.73 percent.
India’s daily COVID-19 test positivity rate has now reached 0.35 percent while the rolling average of the weekly positivity rate reached 0.42 percent.
As per the figures shared by the health ministry, a total of 78.12 crore total tests have been carried out so far of which 7,17,330 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.
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It also showed that 180.80 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the country thus far while the Centre has provided 183.24 crore vaccine doses to states and UTs.
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