New Delhi: Kerala records more than half of all fresh Covid-19 cases in the country followed closely by Maharashtra, as per the data released by Union health ministry on Sunday.
According to the data, India reported 45,083 new Covid-19 cases and 460 deaths in the last 24 hours while Kerala reported 31,265 cases on Saturday alone. The state has continued to register more than 30,000 coronavirus infections for the past four consecutive days.
As a result, India saw an increase of 8,783 cases in the active case count on Sunday. Cumulatively, India's active cases have climbed to 3,68,558.
With fresh deaths reported on the previous day, India's Covid-19 death toll has climbed to 4,37,830. The count of daily new cases has stayed below 50,000 for the 63 consecutive days now, the ministry said.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.57 per cent. The daily positivity rate in India has been below 3 per cent for the last 34 days.
The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.18 per cent, which according to the health ministry's report has been below 3 per cent for 65 days now. The number of people who have recovered from the disease surged to 3,18,8,642, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent.
India on Saturday conducted 17,55,327 Covid tests, taking the cumulative number of such examinations done so far to 51,86,42,327. At the same, India has administered over 73.8 lakh doses of Covid vaccines, taking the total vaccination count to around 63.09 crore so far.
Meanwhile, global coronavirus caseload has topped 215.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.49 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.16 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and vaccination tally stood at 215,904,106, 4,493,161 and 5,167,667,136, respectively.
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 38,755,584 and 637,241, respectively, according to the CSSE.
In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 32,649,947 cases.
The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (20,728,605), France (6,813,516), Russia (6,766,667), the UK (6,729,899), Turkey (6,329,519), Argentina (5,167,733), Colombia (4,903,304), Iran (4,895,448), Spain (4,831,809), Italy (4,524,292), Indonesia (4,056,354), Germany (3,933,585) and Mexico (3,311,317), the CSSE figures showed.
In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 579,010 fatalities.
Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (437,370), Mexico (257,150), Peru (198,031), Russia (177,679), the UK (132,699), Indonesia (130,781), Italy (129,056), Colombia (124,743), France (114,453), Argentina (111,270) and Iran (105,901).