Covid-19 Tally: 11,850 New Cases Reports In Last 24 Hours. Delhi Records 62 Cases On Friday After 3 Months

For 36 straight days, new coronavirus infections have been below 20,000 and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 139 consecutive days now.

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New Delhi: India recorded 11,850 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours even as the total number of active cases declined to 1,36,308, the lowest in 274 days. According to the Union Health Ministry, the total number of Covid-19 cases has now reached 3,44, 26,036.

But active cases now comprises 0.40 per cent of the total infections which has been the lowest since March 2020.

COVID19 | India reports 11,850 new cases and 555 deaths in the last 24 hours; Active caseload stands at 1,36,308; lowest in 274 days: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare pic.twitter.com/Zhp1X5odt8

— ANI (@ANI) November 13, 2021

The death toll due to the infection has seen a rise with 555 fresh fatalities and has reached 4,63,245. But according to the ministry, the recovery rate remains high at 98.26 per cent, the highest since March 2020. The number of people who have recovered from the disease has increased to 3,38,26, 483.

For 36 straight days, new coronavirus infections have been below 20,000 and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 139 consecutive days now.

The ministry has also said that the daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.94 per cent which has been less than 2 per cent for the last 40 days. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.05 per cent. It has been below 2 per cent for the last 50 days, according to the health ministry.

Meanwhile, as the festivities come to a close, the national capital New Delhi is seeing a spurt in the Covid-19 number and on Friday recorded 62 new infections and 2 deaths in the last 24 hours. The active cases in the capital now stand at 371 while the positivity rate has increased to 0.12 per cent. 

With fresh fatalities, the death toll now stands at 25,093 but the case fatality rates remain unchanged at 1.74 per cent.