India Records 8,439 New COVID-19 Cases, 23.7% Higher Than Yesterday

TPI Staff December 8, 2021

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India Sees Its Biggest Ever One-Day Jump In COVID-19 Cases As 1.45 Lakh Test +ve

Mumbai: India registered 8,439 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, 23.7% higher than yesterday. As many as 195 deaths were reported in the country, increasing the total death count to 4,73,952.

Of these, Kerala reported 4,656 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, as per the state health bulletin.

With the addition of new cases, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 3,46,56,822. Of these, 93,733 are active cases which is the lowest in the last 555 days. The active caseload is less than one per cent of the total cases and currently stands at 0.27 per cent.

The daily positivity rate for the last 65 days is 0.70 per cent, which is less than two per cent. The weekly positivity rate of 0.76 per cent is less than one per cent in the last 24 days.

With the new recoveries, the total recoveries increased to 3,40,89,137. The recovery rate, currently at 98.36 per cent, is the highest since March 2020. With the death of 195 people in the last 24 hours, the death toll rose to 4,73,952.

Meanwhile, 65.06 crores (65,06,60144) COVID-19 tests have been conducted in the country so far, which includes 12,13,130 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.

According to the Health Ministry, more than 129.54 crore vaccine doses have been given so far under the nationwide vaccination campaign.