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By: Shree1news, 02 JUL 2021
As many 46,617 new COVID-19 cases have been reported in India within the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry on Friday. India also passed the grim milestone of 4 lakh deaths resulting from covid-19 on Thursday as it reported 853 deaths within the last 24 hours.
The death toll because of COVID-19 rose to 4,00,312 with 853 daily fatalities.
The active cases have further declined to 5,09,637, comprising 1.67 per cent of the total infections, whereas the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 97.01 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
A net decline of 13,620 cases has been recorded in the total number of active COVID-19 cases in a span of 24 hours.
Also, 18,80,026 tests were conducted on Thursday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 within the nation to 41,42,51,520, whereas the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.48 per cent. It has been less than 5 per cent for 25 consecutive days, the ministry stated.
Weekly positivity rate has declined to 2.57 per cent, according to the health ministry.
Recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for 50th consecutive days.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,95,48,302, whereas the case fatality rate stands at 1.31 per cent, the data stated.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May Four and three crore on June 23.
Source:A-N
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