New Delhi: India logged a single day rise of 20,408 new coronavirus infections, pushing India's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,40,00,138, as the active cases declined to 1,43,384, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The death toll has climbed to 5,26,312 with 44 new fatalities, the data updated by the government at 8 am said.
The active cases comprise 0.33 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.48 per cent, the health ministry said.
COVID-19: India reports 20,408 fresh cases, 20,958 recoveries, and 54 deaths in the last 24 hours.
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Active cases 1,43,384
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A decrease of 604 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 5.05 per cent. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 4.92 per cent, according to the health ministry.
The number of people who recovered from the infection surged to 4,33,30,442, and the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.20 per cent.
According to the ministry, 203.94 crore doses of COVID vaccines have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4, 2021, three crore on June 23, and four crore on January 25 this year. (PTI)
