Covid Update: India Reports 959 Fatalities As Kerala Adds Backlog, 2 Lakh Cases In Last 24 Hrs

The death count climbed to 4,95,050 with 959 Covid-related deaths. Kerala added 374 deaths as a backlog to today's count.

Covid testing in India (Image: PTI)

New Delhi: India has reported a decline in Covid cases as the country registered 2,09,918 new infections in the last 24 hours. The daily death toll, however, witnessed a surge as 959 people succumbed to the virus on Sunday, taking the total death count up to 4,95,050.

Kerala added 374 deaths as a backlog to today's count.

India recorded 2,62,628 recoveries in the last 24 hours. While the number of active cases is 18,31,268 (4.43%), the daily positivity rate has been recorded at 15.77%.

As far as vaccination is concerned, a total of 1,66,03,96,227 shots have been administered so far, official data said. 

Maharashtra

Maharashtra witnessed a decline in Covid cases on Sunday as the state reported 22,444 new coronavirus positive cases, which increased its caseload to 77,05,969, while 50 patients succumbed to the infection, taking the fatality count to 1,42,572, according to a PTI report.

Of the new patients, five were found infected with the Omicron variant of the virus. All of them are from Pune city, it said.

A total of 39,015 patients recuperated during the day, which pushed the recovery figure to 73,31,806, the department said in a statement.

The state's COVID-19 recovery rate is 95.14 per cent and there are now 2,27,711 active cases.

As 1,68,968 people were tested during the day, the cumulative test count rose to 7,45,02,688.

So far, 3,130 Omicron variant cases have been reported in the state, it said.

Mumbai city reported 1,160 cases new COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths. With this, its overall case count increased to 10,44,712 and death toll to 16,612.