India reports lowest COVID-19 cases in 2 months

World Sunday 06/June/2021 09:17 AM
By: Times News Service
India reports lowest COVID-19 cases in 2 months
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New Delhi: India reported 114,460 new COVID-19 cases, 189,232 discharges, and 2,677 deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.

This is the lowest number of cases reported in the last two months. On April 596,982 cases were reported. The following day, 115,736 new cases were reported. A total of 28,809,339 positive cases have been reported so far, including 26,984,781 recoveries, and 1,477,799 active cases.

As many as 364,746,522 samples have been tested in the country up to June 5 including 2,036,311 samples tested on Saturday, the Indian Council of Medical Research informed.

The national Recovery Rate has increased to 93.67 per cent. The weekly positivity rate, meanwhile, stands at 6.54 per cent.

As many as 231,322,417 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered so far.