New Delhi: India witnessed a one-day rise of 16,326 new COVID-19 cases to reach 34,159,562, while active cases declined to 1,73,728, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. Which is the lowest in 233 days.
The total recoveries increased to 3,35,32,126 with 17,677 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
According to the data, the death toll has risen to 453,708 with 666 deaths per day.
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 risen to 1,73,728, 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. Most since.
Also, a total of 59.84 crore cumulative tests have been conducted so far for the detection of COVID-19 in the country.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.20 per cent. For the last 19 days, it is less than two per cent.
The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.24 per cent. According to the Ministry of Health, it is less than two percent for the last 29 days.
Under the nationwide vaccination campaign, 101.30 crore vaccine doses have been given so far.
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 lakhs on 28 September, 70 lakhs on October. It crossed 80 lakhs on 11th October, 90 lakhs on 20th November and one crore on 19th December.
India crossed the two crore mark on 4 May and the three crore mark on 23 June.
coronavirus cases in states
Maharashtra recorded 1,632 new coronavirus cases a day earlier and 40 fresh deaths on Friday, while 1,744 patients recovered from the infection, the health department said.
No fresh case of respiratory disease was reported in eight of the total 36 districts.
With new cases and deaths, the state’s COVID-19 tally rose to 65,99,850, while the toll rose to 1,39,965.
On Thursday, the state recorded 1,573 new coronavirus cases and 39 deaths.
The department said the case fatality rate in Maharashtra is 2.12 per cent.
With 1,744 patients being discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, the number of cured cases rose to 64,32,138.
The state now has 24,138 active cases, with a coronavirus recovery rate of 97.46 per cent.
Meanwhile, daily new COVID cases continued to fluctuate in Kerala as 9,361 people turned positive on Friday after 80,393 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, and the test positivity rate stood at 11.64 per cent, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. said in a statement.
The new cases on Wednesday stood at 11,150, while on Thursday it came down to 8,733.
Vijayan’s statement also mentioned that 9,401 people turned negative taking the active cases in the state to 80,892, of which 9.8 per cent patients were in hospitals.
Friday saw 90 more COVID deaths, taking the death toll to 27,765.
Delhi, on the other hand, recorded one death due to COVID-19 and 38 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 0.07 per cent, as per the data shared by the city’s health department on Friday.
The national capital has recorded four deaths due to the coronavirus infection so far this month, with the last three deaths on October 2, October 10 and October 19.
The death toll from COVID-19 in Delhi has risen to 25,091.
According to official figures, last month only five people died due to coronavirus infection – one each on September 7 and September 16 and 17 and two on September 28.
As per the latest health bulletin, 38 cases were reported on Friday with a positivity rate of 0.07 per cent.
The cumulative number of cases on Friday stood at 14,39,526. More than 14.14 lakh patients have recovered from the infection.
(with inputs from agencies)
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