India logs 5,921 new Covid infections, 289 deaths

New Delhi: Recording a steep decline in Covid-19 cases in the country, India on Saturday reported 5,921 fresh Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry updated data.

The country recorded 289 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 5,14,878. While the active case reached 63,878 at 0.15% and the daily positivity rate at 0.63%.

The country recorded 11,651 recoveries in last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 4,23,78,721, the updated Health Ministry data revealed

As per government data, India has an active caseload of 69,897 which accounts for 0.17 per cent of the total cases.

The daily positivity rate further declined to 0.63% from 0.69% a day before, while the weekly positivity rate also dipped to 0.84 per cent from 0.90 per cent on Friday.

Around 11,651 people recovered from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 4,23,78,721.

On March 4, India had registered 6,396 new Covid-19 cases and 201 deaths.

The daily Covid-19 cases have been less than one lakh for 27 consecutive days in India.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that 9,40,905 samples were tested on March 4. The total samples tested for coronavirus up to March 4 have mounted to 77,19,14,261

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.