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New Delhi: According to the Union Health Ministry, India added 13,091 new coronavirus infections in a 24-hour period, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 3,44,01,670, while the active cases came down to 1,38,556, in 266 days. is the lowest. The ministry’s figures were updated on Thursday.
The death toll rose to 4,62,189 with 340 fresh deaths, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 34 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 137 consecutive days.
The ministry said that active cases comprise 0.40 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.25 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
A decrease of 1,127 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in the 24-hour period.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.10 per cent. For the last 38 days, it is less than two per cent. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.18 per cent. According to the ministry, it has been below two per cent for the last 48 days.
The number of people recovering from the disease rose to 3,38,00,925, while the death rate was recorded at 1.34 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign have exceeded 110.23 crore.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed 20 lakh on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It had crossed 60 lakh on 28 September, 70 lakh on 11 October. 80 lakh on 29 October, 90 lakh on 20 November and crossed the one crore mark on 19 December.
India crossed the grim milestone of 20 million on 4 May and 30 million on 23 June.
The 340 new deaths include 259 from Kerala and 17 from Maharashtra. Of the 259 deaths, 48 were named as Covid deaths in the last few days and 211 after receiving appeals based on fresh guidelines from the Center and the Supreme Court’s directions. Kerala state government release said on Wednesday.
A total of 4,62,189 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 1,40,447 from Maharashtra, 38,131 from Karnataka, 36,247 from Tamil Nadu, 34,621 from Kerala, 25,091 from Delhi, 22,904 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,267 from West Bengal.
The ministry insisted that more than 70 per cent of the deaths were due to co-morbidities.
“Our data is being collated with the Indian Council of Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website. The state wise distribution of data is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
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