India Reports 13,451 Coronavirus Cases In Last 24 Hrs, Active Cases Lowest In 242 Days
Kerala on Tuesday recorded 7,163 fresh coronavirus cases and 482 related deaths in the last 24 hours.
Corona Cases Update: The country continues to register less than 15,000 cases in the last 24 hours. India reported 13,451 new Covid cases, 14,021 recoveries and 585 deaths, according to the Union Health Ministry.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 33 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 122 consecutive days.
The active cases comprise 0.48 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.19 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
A decrease of 1,155 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.03 per cent. It has been less than 2 per cent for last 23 days. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.22 per cent. It has been below two per cent for the last 33 days, according to the ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,35, 97,339, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent.
Case tally: 3,42,15,653
Active cases: 1,62,661 (lowest in 242 days)
Total recoveries: 3,35,97,339
Death toll: 4,55,653
Total Vaccination: 1,03,53,25,577 (55,89,124 y'day)
Kerala
Kerala on Tuesday recorded 7,163 fresh coronavirus cases, and 482 related deaths which raised the caseload to 49,19,952 and toll to 29,355, according to a PTI report.
Of the 482 deaths, 90 were reported in the last few days, 341 were those which were not confirmed until June 18 last year due to lack of adequate documentation, and 51 were designated as COVID deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and Supreme Court directions, informed the state Health Ministry.
With 6,960 more people recovering from the virus since Monday, the total recoveries touched 48,24,745 and the active cases dropped to 74,456, the release said.
As many as 79,122 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
Among the 14 districts, Thrissur recorded the highest with 974 cases, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (808) and Kottayam (762).