Covid cases in India have increased in the last 24 hours, but daily deaths have decreased to 491

The number of coronavirus cases in India increased by 39,070 in a single day, bringing the total number of infections to 31,934,455, while the death toll increased to 4,27,862 with 491 new fatalities, according to the Union health ministry on Sunday.

The number of active cases in the country has decreased to 4,06,822, accounting for 1.27 percent of total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 97.39 percent, according to ministry data updated at 8 a.m.

An increase of 442 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours, it said.

The ministry also said that 17,22,221 tests were conducted on Friday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 to 48,00,39,185.

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.27%. It has been less than 3 % for the last 12 days.

Weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.38%, according to the health ministry.

Meanwhile, the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,10,99,771, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34%, the data stated.

Cumulative vaccine doses administered so far has reached 50.68 crore under the nationwide vaccination drive.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20 lakh-mark on August 7 last, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.

 

 

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