Saturday 28 / December / 2024
New Delhi: India recorded 67,208 fresh COVID-19 cases and 2,330 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the daily positivity rate in India now stands at 3.48 per cent. It has been below 5 per cent for the tenth consecutive day. With the new cases, the country's tally has climbed to 29,700,313 while the death toll has reached 3,81,903.
The active cases have further declined to 826,740, which is the lowest after 71 days.
According to the Health Ministry, the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 95.93 per cent.
The recoveries continued to outnumber daily new cases for the 35th consecutive day. India witnessed 103,570 recoveries in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery tally to 28,491,670.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 385,238,220 samples were tested for COVID-19, up to June 15 out of these, 1,931,249 samples were tested yesterday.
The Union Health Ministry has informed that 265,519,251 vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.
