New Delhi: India’s daily tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continued a downward trend on Saturday after 7,992 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, taking the caseload to 34,682,736, according to the Union health ministry’s update at 8 am.
Saturday’s infection count has been the lowest since Tuesday when 6,822 cases were recorded.
As many as 9,265 patients recovered from and 393 succumbed to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total count of recoveries and deaths to 34,114,331 and 475,128 respectively.
The health ministry also said active cases of Covid-19 declined to 93,277 and have been the lowest in 559 days. “Active cases account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at 0.27%; Lowest since March 2020,” the Union health ministry said in its statement on Saturday.
The overall recovery rate from Covid-19, meanwhile, has climbed to 98.36%, the highest since March last year, the ministry also said, adding that the daily positivity rate at 0.64% has been less than 2% for the last 68 days.
On Friday, India recorded 8,503 cases, 624 deaths and 7,678 discharges due to Covid-19.
The overall vaccination coverage in the country is nearing 1.32 billion with more than 7.63 million doses administered to eligible beneficiaries in the last 24 hours.
