India reports over 92k new Covid cases, 2k deaths: Govt
NEW DELHI: India reported 92,596 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the infection tally to 29,089,069, while the number of active cases dropped to 1,231,415, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Wednesday.
The daily infections remained below one lakh for the second straight day.
The death toll due to Covid-19 reached 353,528 with 2,219 more fatalities, the data updated at 8am showed.
The number of active cases has reduced to 1,231,415, comprising 4.23 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 94.55 per cent.
A net decline of 72,287 cases has been recorded in the Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
Also, 1,985,967 tests were conducted on Tuesday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of Covid-19 in the country to 3,70,193,563, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 4.66 per cent. It has been less than 10 per cent for 16 consecutive days, the ministry said. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 5.66 per cent. Recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for 27 consecutive days. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,75,04,126, while the case fatality rate has increased to 1.22 per cent, the data stated.
Cumulatively, 23,90,58,360 Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the 2 million mark on August 7, 3 million on August 23, 4 million on September 5 and 5 million on September 16.
It went past 6 million on September 28, 7 million on October 11, crossed 8 million on October 29, 9 million on November 20 and surpassed the 10 million mark on December 19. India had crossed the grim milestone of 20 million on May 4.