India finally broke a five-day string of reporting over three lakh daily Covid cases today, with 2,55,874 new instances reported, down 16.39% from yesterday’s high of 3.06 lakh.
Second worst affected country
According to data from the Union Health Ministry, the total number of Covid cases in India – the second worst-affected country after the United States – has now reached around 3.98 crore.
In India, active cases currently account for 5.62 percent of all infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has risen to 93.15 percent. There are now 22,36,842 active cases.
Decrease in positivity rate
The daily positivity rate, which is the percentage of coronavirus tests that come back positive — a vital indicator of the pandemic’s state — has declined to 15.52 percent from 20.75 percent yesterday, while the weekly positivity rate was 17.17 percent.
In the last 24 hours, 614 more deaths have been reported in the country, bringing the total number of Covid-related deaths to 4,90,462 since the outbreak began.
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