India`s daily Covid-19 cases drop below 1,000-mark for first time since April 2020
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New Delhi: With 913 fresh cases recorded in the last 24-hours, India's daily Covid tally on Monday marked less than 1,000 new Covid cases for the first time since April 2020.
The number of active cases is the lowest in 714 days, the data showed.
The drop in daily infections in India comes at a time when the WHO has raised an alarm over a new XE strain, a recombinant variant of BA.1 and BA.2 sublineages of the Omicron variant. Several states in the country have done away with the Covid rules after a gap of more than two years
13 new fatalities pushed the death count from the pandemic to 5,21,358, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active case count comprises 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.
India recorded COVID-19 cases below 1,000 for the first time since April 18, 2020 when 991 cases were reported.
A reduction of 416 cases has been recorded in the number of active infections in a span of 24 hours.
India's COVID-19 tally had surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19, 2020. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore coronavirus cases on May 4 and three crores on June 23 last year.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.29 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 0.22 per cent, according to the Health Ministry.
A total of 79.10 crore tests for the detection of COVID-19 have been conducted so far, including 3,14,823 in the last 24 hours.