India reports over 62,000 fresh cases of COVID-19 in a single day

NEW DELHI: India reported 62,224 new coronavirus infections were in a single day bringing total number of COVID-19 cases to 2,96,33,105, with active cases falling below nine lakh after 70 days, according to data updated on Wednesday by the Union Health Ministry.

With 2,542 deaths, the COVID-19 death toll has risen to 3,79,573.

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The number of active cases has dropped to 8,65,432 cases, accounting for 2.92 percent of all infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 95.80 percent.

The COVID-19 caseload has decreased by 47,946 cases.

On Monday, 19,30,987 tests were conducted, bringing the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted throughout the country to 38,33,06,971.

The daily positivity rate has fallen to 3.22 percent. According to the ministry, it has been less than 5 percent for nine days in a row and the weekly positive rate has dropped to 4.17 percent.

For the 34th day in a row recoveries have outnumbered daily new cases.

According to the data, the number of persons who have recovered from the sickness has increased to 2,83,88,100 with a case fatality rate of 1.28 percent.

So far, the Nationwide Vaccination Drive has administered a total of 26,19,72,014 COVID-19 vaccine doses.

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