India’s COVID-19 tally increased to 4,30,06,080 on Saturday with 2,075 fresh infections, while the active cases declined further to 27,802, according to Union health ministry data. The death count due to the viral disease climbed to 5,16,352 with 71 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.73 per cent, the health ministry said.
A reduction of 1,379 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.56 per cent and the weekly positivity rate stood at 0.41 per cent, the ministry said.
The last 24 hours saw a total of 3,70,514 COVID-19 tests being conducted. India has so far conducted over 78.22 crore tests, it said.
Odisha recorded 72 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the Health Department said.
The daily positivity rate was 0.18 per cent and 15 children were among the newly-infected, it said.
The new cases were detected after testing 44,268 samples, it added.
The state had logged 79 infections on Friday. The death count remained at 9,106 as no new deaths were reported in the last two days.
Delhi reported 140 fresh COVID-19 cases and zero death due to the viral disease on Friday, while the positivity rate was recorded at 0.43 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.
With this, the national capital’s Covid case count increased to 18,63,633, while the death count due to the disease stood at 26,145, according to the latest health bulletin issued by the department.
The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago was 32,444, the bulletin said.
Tamil Nadu logged 61 new COVID-19 cases and zero deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the state health department on Friday.
With this, the active cases of COVID-19 in the state stood at 730.
As per data in the state government’s COVID-19 bulletin, 127 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative recoveries to 34,13,521.
In the last 24 hours, as per the state bulletin, 38,500 COVID tests were conducted in the state.
Tamil Nadu has 335 COVID-19 testing facilities. Of these 69 are government-run and 266 are privately owned.
All remaining COVID-19 pandemic-related international travel restrictions, including filling in Passenger Locator Forms before arrival and compulsory pre-departure tests for unvaccinated travellers, have been scrapped from Friday.
