Thursday 18 / April / 2024
New Delhi: With 80,834 COVID-19 reported cases in the last 24 hours India continued its declining trend of new infections and reported the lowest single-day count in 71 days, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Sunday.
The new cases pushed the COVID case tally in the country to 29,439,989. India has been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload and the current active number of COVID cases stands at 1,026,159 with a net decrease of 54,531 cases in the last 24 hours.
The weekly positivity rate further dropped to less than 5 per cent and currently stands at 4.74 per cent while the daily positivity rate stands at 4.25 per cent today. It has remained less than 10 per cent for 20 consecutive days now.
According to the Union Health Ministry, a total of 3,303 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 370,384 in the country.
As many as 132,062 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries in the country to 28,043,446. With this, the recovery rate increases to 95.26 per cent.
The Union Health Ministry has informed that around 253,195,048 COVID vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.
