Covid-19: India records 1.32 lakh new cases, 2,713 deaths in last 24 hours

NEW DELHI: Maintaining a continued trend in decreasing daily new cases, India on Friday reported 1,32,364 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 2,713.
The total tally of infections stood at 2,85,74,350 and the death toll at 340,702, the health ministry said.
On a continued downward slope, the active caseload further declined to 16,35,993; less than 2 lakh since 8 successive days.
Active cases decreased by 77,420 in last 24 hours. More than 2.65 crore persons have recovered from Covid across the country so far. 2,07,071 patients recovered during last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.

A total of 20,75,428 tests were conducted on Thursday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of Covid-19 in the country to 35,74,33,846. The daily positivity was recorded at 6.38 per cent. It has been less than 10 per cent for 11 consecutive days, the ministry said.

The weekly positivity rate has declined to 7.27 per cent.
The active cases have reduced to 16,35,993 comprising 5.73 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 93.08 per cent.
A net decline of 77,420 cases has been recorded in the Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

Recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for 22 consecutive days. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,65,97,655, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.19 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 2 crore on May 4.
(With agency inputs)