India reported 7,754 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, slightly higher than the previous day but under the 10000 mark for the third day in a row.
The cases take the number of total confirmed new Covid-19 cases in the country to 4,29,38,599.
A total of 223 Coronavirus deaths were also registered in the last 24 hours, taking the official toll of fatalities due to the infectious disease to 514226. Kerala State continued to report backlog deaths as part of its data reconciliation exercise registering 128 fatalities.
Kerala also recoreded the most deaths at 40 but all other states reported 10 or fewer fatalities in the 24-hour period. In India, Kerala is the only state, who have active COVID-19 infections above 25,000 but, like other states and Union Territories, and also reporting a rapid decline in active infections.
The active Coronavirus caseload in the country now stands at 85,680 — 6,792 lower than the previous day and 0.20% of the total confirmed cases.
The daily test positivity rate in India stood at 0.96% (per cent), while the rolling average of the weekly positivity rate came down to 1.06% .
The states cumulatively reported 14,123 recoveries in the last 24 hours, updating latest as the total recoveries to 4,23,38,673 with the recovery rate reaching 98.60%.
The health ministry told that a total of 769.1 million tests have been conducted in the country so far of which 7,84,059 tests were carried out in the last 24 hours.
Overall, 177.79 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses have also been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive against coronavirus / omicron variant, as per details shared.
The Centre also told that it has supplied 177.70 crore Coronavirus vaccine doses to states so far of which 14.45 crore doses remain unutilised.
