India reported on Saturday (26) 48,698 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed. Death toll in the country due to the virus increased by 1,183.
India's total tally of infections stand at 30,183,143 while the weekly positivity rate declined to 2.97 per cent, the ministry said. The death toll climbed to 394,493.
The number of active cases has further declined to 595,565 and now accounts for 1.97 per cent of the total infections, health ministry said.
The case fatality rate stood at 1.31 per cent. While the national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 96.72 per cent, the weekly case positivity rate has come down to 2.97 per cent.
According to the Health Ministry data, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.79 per cent. It has been less than 5 per cent for 19 consecutive days.
India administered 6.2 million vaccine doses in a day taking the cumulative number of jabs given so far under the nationwide inoculation drive to 315 million, according to immunisation data.
Also, 1,735,781 tests were conducted on Friday (25) for the detection of Covid-19, taking the total number of tests conducted so far in the country to 399,568,448.
India's Covid-19 tally crossed 20 million on May 4 and 30 million on June 23.
The most numbers of deaths were reported from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Punjab states, according to the health ministry.
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