With 50,407 fresh Covid cases, India sees 13.2% drop in daily infections

New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 58,077 coronavirus infections, which took the tally of cases to 4,25,36,137, while the active cases have declined to 6,97,802, according to Union health ministry data updated on Friday.

The daily COVID-19 cases are being recorded at less than one lakh for the last five consecutive days.

The top five states which have registered maximum cases are Kerala with 16,012 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 5,455 cases, Karnataka with 3,976 cases, Tamil Nadu with 3,086 cases and Rajasthan with 2,890 cases.

As many as 62.33 per cent of the new cases are reported from these five states, with Kerala alone responsible for 31.77 per cent of the new cases.

The number of deaths has climbed to 5,07,177 with 657 daily fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

The active cases comprise 1.64 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has further improved to 97.17 per cent, the health ministry said.

A reduction of 92,987 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate has been recorded at 3.89 per cent while weekly positivity rate has been recorded at 5.76 per cent, according to the health ministry.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has increased to 4,13,31,158, while the case fatality rate has been recorded at 1.19 per cent.

The cumulative doses administered so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 171.79 crore.

India COVID-19 tally had crossed two crore cases on May 4 and three cases on June 23 last year.