New Delhi: India registered 12,781 new cases in the last 24 hours, 0.9 percent lower than yesterday. For the fifth straight day, India recorded more than 12,000 new Covid cases, and the country now has over 76,000 active cases, the Union Health Ministry on Monday Morning said.
India on Monday logged 12,781 fresh COVID-19 cases that pushed its infection tally to 4,33,09,473, while the daily positivity rate went past four percent after 130 days.
India’s overall death count now stands at 524,873. The 18 new fatalities include 11 from Kerala, three from Delhi, and one each from Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, and West Bengal.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 4.32 percent and the weekly positivity rate at 2.62 percent. The active cases comprise 0.18 percent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.61 percent, the ministry said.
So far, 196.18 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the country under the nationwide inoculation drive.
India’s COVID-19 tally 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 1-crore mark on December 19.
India crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4, 3 crore on June 23 and 4 crore on January 25 this year.
(Vinayak)
