India’s Covid tally rose to 3,44,47,536 with 10,229 more people testing positive for coronavirus, while the active cases have declined to 1,34,096, the lowest in 523 days, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data today. The death count reached 4,63,655 after 125 new fatalities were reported, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 38 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 141 consecutive days now.
The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.26 percent, the highest since March 2020, the Health Ministry said.