New Delhi: The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Saturday recorded 10,929 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, which is the lowest in the last 255 days. The daily rise in COVID-19 cases has been below 20,000 for 29 straight days and less than 50,000 daily cases have been reported for 132 consecutive days now.
The country also saw 392 coronavirus-related deaths and 12,509 recoveries in the last 24 hours. India has so far recorded more than 4.60 lakh fatalities and over 3.37 crore recoveries.
Meanwhile, 107.92 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far in India. Active infections now account for less than 1% of the total cases and currently stand at 0.43%.
The Health Ministry informed that 61.39 crore tests have been conducted so far across the country and that the daily positivity rate is currently at 1.35 percent, while the weekly positivity rate is at 1.27 percent.
(Vinayak)