India reports 12,751 new Covid cases and 42 deaths in last 24 hours

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday reported 12,751 new Covid cases and 42 deaths. Kerala updated death figures, adding 10 deaths to it's death count. With this rise, the death toll in the country due to the virus has reached 5,26,772.

India's active caseload currently stands at 1,31,807, which is 0.30 per cent of the total cases. The country reported 16,412 recoveries in the last 24 hours. This takes the total number of patients who have recovered from Covid to 4,35,16,071. Covid recovery rate in India is currently 98.51 per cent.

Daily positivity rate is 3.50 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate stands at 4.69 per cent.

India has so far conducted 87.85 crore Covid tests, of which 3,63,855 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.
The country has also administered 206.88 crore vaccine doses, of which 93.64 crore is the second dose and 11.14 crore is the precaution dose.