India on Monday reported the lowest daily new cases in the last 50 days with the tally at 1.52 Lakh cases. It is for the fourth consecutive day that the daily cases have been less than two lakh.
With a decrease by 88,416 in the last 24 hours, active caseload has further declined to 20,26,092, Union Health Ministry said adding that at the same time daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 18th consecutive day. The recovery rate has further climbed to 91.60 per cent while daily positivity rate at 9.07 per cent continues the streak of less than 10 per cent positivity for seven continuous days, said the Ministry. 85,288 more recoveries were reported during the last 24 hours as compared to the daily new cases.
Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic 2,56,92,342 people have already recovered from Covid-19 while2,38,022 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours.
A total of 16,83,135 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country and cumulatively India has conducted 34.48 crore tests so far.
So far more than 21.31 crore vaccine doses have been administered under nationwide vaccination drive. Of this, the total consumption, including wastages, is 21,22,38,652 doses (as per data available at 8 AM on Monday).