According to data from the Union Health Ministry, India recorded 37,875 new cases of coronavirus infection on Wednesday, bringing the overall number of coronavirus cases to 3,30,96,718.
The number of active cases fell below four lakh for two days in a row, to 3,91,256. While the death toll has risen to 4,41,411 with the addition of 369 more victims. The mortality rate in this event was 1.33 percent.
The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 70 crore.
The active cases saw a decline of 1,608 in a day. It comprises 1.18% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.48%, the ministry said.
The weekly positivity rate stood at 2.49%–less than 3% for the last 75 days.
Whereas the daily positivity rate reported was at 2.16%–less than 3% for the last nine days.
Meanwhile, the country’s southern-most state Kerala has started to witness a decline in its daily coronavirus cases.
After recording 30,000 or more daily cases for several days, Kerala is seeing a gradual decrease in the fresh number of cases. The state reported 25,772 fresh Covid-19 cases pushing the caseload to 42,53,298.
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