Covid Update: India Records Surge In Death Toll With 871 Fatalities In Last 24 Hrs, Registers 2.35 Lakh New Cases

The daily positivity rate of the country is at 13.39% while the active cases stand at 20,04,333.

Covid testing in India (Image: PTI)

New Delhi: Continuing with the decreasing trend in daily Coronavirus cases, India has again recorded a dip in infections on Saturday. India has registered  2,35,532 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours. However, the surge in the death toll is a greater cause of concern as  871 succumbed to the virus on Friday. 

The country also witnessed 3,35,939 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Active case: 20,04,333 (4.91%)

Daily positivity rate: 13.39%

Total Vaccination : 1,65,04,87,260

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#Unite2FightCorona #LargestVaccineDrive ➡️ India’s Cumulative #COVID19 Vaccination Coverage exceeds 165.04 Cr (165,04,87,260). ➡️ More than 56 Lakh doses administered in the last 24 hours. ➡️ More than 1.10 Cr Precaution Doses administered so far.

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The active cases decreased by 1,01,278 to reach 20,04,333 -- 4.91 per cent of the total infections -- while the country's recovery rate stands at 93.89 per cent, the ministry said.

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 13.39 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was 16.89 per cent, according to the health ministry.

Meanwhile, the cumulative number of anti-Covid vaccine doses administered in the country so far has crossed 165.04 crore.

India's surpassed the one-crore mark in the number of cases on December 19, 2020. It crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.

Maharashtra

Maharashtra on Friday recorded 24,948 new coronavirus cases including 110 Omicron infections and 103 pandemic-related deaths, the health department said.

New cases declined by 477 compared to the day before. On Thursday, the state had recorded 25,425 cases besides 42 fatalities. The caseload on Friday rose to 76,55,554 and death toll reached 1,42,461. The case fatality rate stood at 1.86 per cent.

As many as 45,648 patients were discharged, taking the number of recovered patients to 72,42,649. The recovery rate in the state stands at 94.61 per cent.

There are 2,66,586 active cases in the state.

All 110 new Omicron cases were reported from Pune city.

Pune city recorded 3,377 new coronavirus cases, Nagpur city 2,161, Pimpri Chinchwad twin township 2,099, Nashik city 1,720 and Mumbai reported 1,312 cases.