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New Delhi: According to data from the Union Health Ministry, India witnessed a one-day increase of 15,786 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 3,41,43,236, while the active cases declined to 1,75,745, taking the tally to 232 lowest in days. on Friday.
According to the data updated at 8 am, the death toll has risen to 4,53,042 with 231 deaths reported daily.
The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 28 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 117 consecutive days.
The Health Ministry said that the active cases have come down to 1,75,745, comprising 0.51 per cent of the total infections, which is the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.16 per cent, as of March 2020. After most.
A decrease of 3,086 cases has been recorded in the total active number of COVID-19 cases in the 24-hour period.
In addition, 13,24,263 tests were conducted on Thursday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for the detection of COVID-19 in the country to 59,70,66,481.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent. It is less than three per cent for the last 53 days
The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.31 per cent. According to the Health Ministry, it has been below three percent for the last 119 days.
The number of people recovering from the disease increased to 3,35,14,449, while the death rate was recorded at 1.33 percent.
The cumulative dose administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign has exceeded 100.59 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.
231 new people include 118 from Kerala and 39 from Maharashtra.
A total of 4,53,042 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 1,39,925 from Maharashtra, 37,984 from Karnataka, 35,968 from Tamil Nadu, 27,202 from Kerala, 25,090 from Delhi, 22,899 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,021 from West Bengal.
The health ministry insisted that over 70 per cent of the deaths were due to comorbidities.
“Our data is being collated with the Indian Council of Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website. State wise distribution of data is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
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