India records 2,887 more Covid fatalities; active cases below 2 million for third straight day
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The number of active cases has reduced to 17,13,413, accounting for 6.02 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 92.79 per cent.
India announced on Thursday 134,154 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, while deaths from the coronavirus rose by 2,887.
According to data from the health ministry, the country's total COVID-19 caseload now stands at 28.4 million, while total fatalities are at 337,989.
The death toll due to the viral disease has climbed to 3,37,989 with 2,887 more people succumbing to it, while the number of active COVID-19 cases was recorded below 2 million for the third consecutive day, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am.
Also, 21,59,873 tests were conducted on Wednesday to detect COVID-19, taking the total number of such tests conducted so far in the country to 35,37,82,648, while the daily positivity was recorded at 6.21 per cent.
It has been less than 10 per cent for 10 consecutive days now, the ministry said.
The weekly positivity rate has declined to 7.66 per cent.
The number of active cases has reduced to 17,13,413, accounting for 6.02 per cent of the total number of cases, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 92.79 per cent.
A net decline of 80,232 cases was recorded in the COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours, the ministry said.
Recoveries continued to outnumber the fresh cases for the 21st day in a row.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 2,63,90,584, while the case fatality rate has gone up to 1.19 per cent, the data showed.
The country crossed the grim milestone of 20 million coronavirus cases on May 4 this year.