India Logs 31,222 New COVID-19 Cases, 290 Fresh Fatalities In Past 24 Hours

Mumbai: India on Monday reported 31,222 new COVID-19 cases and 290 deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. Of the total new infections reported in the last 24 hours, Kerala reported 19,688 cases.

With this, the country’s total COVID count has gone up to 3,30,58,843, which includes 3,92,864 active cases. A total of 42,942 patients were cured of the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries in India to 3,22,24,937.

The health ministry said the number of active cases accounted for 1.19 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 97.48 per cent.

With 290 fresh deaths in 24 hours, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose to 4,41,042. The weekly positivity rate in the country is 2.56 percent. Less than three per cent in the last 74 days. The daily positivity rate currently stands at 2.05 percent.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 53,31,89,348 samples were tested for COVID-19 till September 6, out of which 15,26,056 samples were tested yesterday.

In a landmark achievement of India’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, over 1.13 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered yesterday. As per the provisional report, with the administration of 1,13,53,571 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, the COVID-19 vaccination coverage of the country crossed the cumulative figure of 69,90,62,776 till 7 am today.

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