NEW DELHI: A single-day rise of 67,208 new Coronavirus infections were recorded taking India’s total tally of cases to 2,97,00,313, while the active cases declined to 8,26,740, the lowest after 71 days, according to the Union Health ministry data updated on Thursday.
The COVID-19 death toll climbed to 3,81,903 with 2,330 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The active cases declined to 8,26,740 comprising 2.78 per cent of the total infections while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 95.93 per cent. A net decline of 38,692 cases has been recorded in the COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
As many as 19,31,249 tests were conducted on Wednesday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 38,52,38,220.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 3.48 per cent. It has been less than 5 per cent for the 10th consecutive day, the ministry said, adding the weekly positivity rate has declined to 3.99 per cent.
This story is from the June 18, 2021 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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