India reported 13,451 new Covid-19 cases and 585 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tally to 3,42,15,653, informed the ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday.
India on Wednesday reported 13,451 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,42,15,653.
According to the Union health ministry data, the country also registered 585 fresh fatalities taking the death toll to 4,55,653.
The active cases, meanwhile, declined to 1,62,661, the lowest in 242 days, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 33 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 122 consecutive days.
The active cases comprise 0.48 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.19 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
A decrease of 1,155 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.03 per cent. It has been less than 2 per cent for last 23 days. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.22 per cent. It has been below two per cent for the last 33 days, according to the ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,35, 97,339, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent.