Covid Update: India's Daily Cases Drop Below 1 Lakh, 83K Infections Reported In Last 24 Hours
India has recorded 895 deaths in the last 24 hours while the positivity rate has dipped to 7.25%.
New Delhi: India has registered a huge decline in Covid cases for the second consecutive day as the daily cases have dropped below 1 lakh. The country reported 83,876 fresh Covid cases, 1,99,054 recoveries, and 895 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Active cases: 11,08,938
Death toll: 5,02,874
Daily positivity rate: 7.25%
Total vaccination: 1,69,63,80,755
Maharashtra
Maintaining the downward trend in Maharashtra on Sunday reported 9,666 new coronavirus positive cases, taking the state's infection tally to 78,03,700, while the death of 66 persons took the toll to 1,43,074, the health department said.
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A total of 25,175 patients were discharged during the day, which raised the recovery count to 75,38,611, it said.
There are 1,18,076 active cases in the state now.
With 1,44,755 tests conducted during the day, the overall test count rose to 7,55,54,798.
No new case of the Omicron variant of the virus was detected in the state on Sunday. Till date, 3,334 people have been found infected with this strain, of whom 2,023 patients have been discharged after they tested negative for the infection, the department said in a statement.
Mumbai reported 536 new cases and three deaths. This took its total case count to 10,50,455 and fatality figure to 16,661.
Delhi
Delhi on Sunday reported 1,410 fresh COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths, while the positivity rate dropped to 2.45 per cent, according to a PTI report.
With this, the national capital's case count increased to 18,43,933 and the death toll climbed to 25,983 the latest health bulletin stated.
The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago stood at 57,549, it said.
Delhi had on Saturday reported 1,604 cases with a positivity rate of 2.87 per cent, and 17 deaths.
The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28,867 on January 13.
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