India registered 16,862 fresh COVID-19 cases, as the active cases in the country came down to 2,03,678, the lowest in 216 days, revealed data from the Union Health Ministry. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country have risen to 3,40,37,592.

The death toll increased to 4,51,814 as 379 fatalities were reported in a day. The daily increase in new infections has been below 30,000 for 21 days in a row and has been below 50,000 daily new cases for 110 straight days.

The active cases now constitute 0.60% of the total cases, which is the lowest since March last year. The recovery rate stood at 98.07%, the highest since March last year. The active caseload in the country has registered a decline of 2,908 cases in a span of 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate stood at 1.43%, and has been below 3% for the last 46 days. The weekly positivity rate was 1.42%, which has continued to be less than 3% for the past 112 days. People who have recovered from COVID-19 increased to 3,33,82,100, while the case fatality rate stood at 1.33%.

The cumulative vaccine doses administered thus far has surpassed 97.14 crore.

The 379 deaths include 174 from Haryana, 96 from Kerala and 35 from Maharashtra. Haryana added the figures after the State Death Audit Committee’s report.

Of the total number of fatalities reported thus far, 1,39,705 have been from Maharashtra, 37,922 from Karnataka, 35,853 from Tamil Nadu, 26,667 from Kerala, 25,089 from Delhi, 22,897 from Uttar Pradesh and 18,945 from West Bengal. As per the ministry, over 70% of the deaths occurred due to co-morbidities.

Source: ET Healthworld