Covid Update: India Logs Over 13K Fresh Infections, Positivity Rate Stands At 3.23%

The active cases comprise 0.30 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.50 per cent.

New Delhi: India witnessed a drop in Covid cases in the last 24 hours as the country registered 13,615 new coronavirus infections in day while the active cases rose to 1,31,043, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. With the addition of new infections,  the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,36,52,944. India's death toll climbed to 5,25,474 with 20 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

The active cases comprise 0.30 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.50 per cent. In the last 24 hours an increase of 330 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload. 

The country has also recorded a drop in the daily positivity rate and it stood at 3.23 per cent on Tuesday while the weekly positivity rate at 4.24 per cent, according to the ministry.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,29,96,427, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.20 per cent.  According to the ministry, 199 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. 

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. 

The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. It crossed the four-crore mark on January 25 this year. The 20 new fatalities include three each from Kerala and West Bengal, two each from Bihar, Haryana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and one each from Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Sikkim.

A total of 5,25,474 deaths have been reported so far in the country including  1,47,978 from Maharashtra, 70,153 from Kerala, 40,124 from Karnataka, 38,028 from Tamil Nadu, 26,284 from Delhi, 23,547 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,246 from  West Bengal.

The ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

(with PTI inputs)