After a considerable decline in daily COVID cases yesterday, India observed a big increase in daily cases today. The government reported 8,439 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, up from 6,822 the day before.
After a considerable decline in daily COVID cases yesterday, India observed a big increase in daily cases today. The government reported 8,439 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, up from 6,822 the day before.
Meanwhile, 195 deaths in the last 24 hours took the death toll to 4,73,952. A total of 9,525 discharges in the same time span pushed the recovery total to 3,40,89,137.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been recorded below 10,000 for 12 straight days and less than 50,000 for 164 consecutive days now.
The active cases count has declined to 93,733, comprising 0.27 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.36 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
A decrease of 1,281 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours, the data showed.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.70 per cent. It has been less than two per cent for the last 65 days.
So far 129.5 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the country.
