NEW DELHI: India reported 20,044 new coronavirus infections and 56 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours across the country, according to the Union health ministry.
This takes the country’s total tally of
Covid-19
infections from the beginning of the pandemic to 4,37,30,071.
With an increase of 1,687 cases from the previous day, India’s active caseload shot up to 1,40,760, according to the Union health ministry data on Saturday morning.
The active cases comprise 0.32 per cent of the total infections.
Of the 56 fatalities, 27 are from Kerala, 10 from Maharashtra, five from West Bengal, two each from Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and one each from Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.
The country’s overall death toll since the beginning of the pandemic has now reached 5,25,660.
With 18,301 recoveries from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the national recovery rate stands at 98.48 per cent, the health ministry said. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,30,63,651.
The daily positivity rate has been recorded at 4.80 per cent while the weekly positivity rate stood at 4.40 per cent.
According to the health ministry, 199.71 crore of Covid vaccination doses have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide inoculation drive.
India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the one-crore mark in December, 2020, two crore in May, last year and three crore in June, 2021. The four crore mark was breached in January, this year.
