The Covid-19 slide continued with India on Tuesday reporting the lowest daily spike in cases in 662 days at 3,993 new infections. The Covid tally has touched 4.29 crore while 108 fresh fatalities were reported.
According to the Union Health Ministry data, the active cases dipped to 49,948. With 108 fresh fatalities, the death count climbed to 5,15,210 so far. “This is the lowest daily spike in Covid cases in 662 days. The last time India's daily new cases fell below 4,000 was on 15 May 2020, when the country recorded 3,967 fresh cases.
The daily Covid-19 cases have remained less than one lakh for 30 consecutive days, and it is the second straight day the new case count has been under 5,000 cases,” said a senior official from the Union Health Ministry. The active cases comprise 0.13 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.68 per cent, the official said.
The daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.46 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was 0.68 per cent, according to the ministry. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,24,06,150 and the case fatality rate was recorded as 1.20 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 179.13 crore.
India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. The 108 new fatalities include 83 from Kerala and five from Karnataka. A total of 5,15,210 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,43,740 from Maharashtra, 66,263 from Kerala, 39,996 from Karnataka, 38,017 from Tamil Nadu, 26,137 from Delhi, 23,476 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,180 from West Bengal.