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India Reports 12,729 COVID-19 Cases, 221 Deaths In Last 24 Hours

Mumbai: India recorded 12,729 new coronavirus infections, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 3,43,33,754, while active cases rose to 48,922, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Friday. Have become.

The death toll rose to 4,59,873 with 221 fresh deaths, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 28 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 131 consecutive days.

The ministry said that active cases comprise 0.43 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.23 per cent, the highest since March 2020.

A rise of 343 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. India crossed the grim milestone of two crores on May 4 and three crores on June 23.

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