India records over 8000 Covid-19 cases for third straight day
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New Delhi: India's daily Covid-19 tally crosses the 8k mark for the third day with 8,084 new Covid-19 infections reported in the last twenty-four hours, according to data released by the Union Health Ministry Monday.
The daily positivity rate is now over three percent after nearly four months.
The death count climbed to 5,24,771 with 10 deaths, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.11 percent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.68 percent, the ministry said.
An increase of 3,482 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 3.24 percent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.21 percent, according to the ministry. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,26,57,335, while the case fatality rate was 1.21 percent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive have exceeded 195.19 crores.
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 crores on May 4 and three crores on June 23 last year.
The 10 new fatalities include three each from Kerala and Delhi, two from Maharashtra, and one each from Mizoram and Punjab.
A total of 5,24,771 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,47,870 from Maharashtra, 69,835 from Kerala, 40,108 from Karnataka, 38,025 from Tamil Nadu, 26,221 from Delhi, 23,525 from Uttar Pradesh, and 21,205 from West Bengal.
The ministry stressed that more than 70 percent 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.