New Delhi: India registered a slight upward tick in the Covid-19 graph with 1,086 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative coronavirus caseload to 43,030,925, according to the latest health ministry bulletin on Wednesday.
New infections breached the 1,000-mark after two straight days of reporting new cases in hundreds. The number of infections today are 36 per cent higher than yesterday's 795 cases.
The death count climbed to 5,21,487 with 71 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.
A reduction of 183 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.23 per cent and the weekly positivity rate as 0.22 per cent, according to the ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,24,97,567, while the case fatality rate was 1.21 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 185.04 crore.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. The 71 new fatalities include 66 from Kerala.
A total of 5,21,487 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,47,793 from Maharashtra, 68,196 from Kerala, 40,055 from Karnataka, 38,025 from Tamil Nadu, 26,154 from Delhi, 23,497 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,199 from West Bengal. The ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
"Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research," the ministry said on its website, adding that state-wise distribution of figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation.