- 44,157 recoveries reported in the last 24 hours
- Active Caseload declines to 3,33,924, the lowest in the last 155 days.
- India’s recovery rate has increased to 97.63 per cent
- 389 deaths in last 24 hours
New Delhi: August 23: Daily cases in India has declined substantially on Monday. In last 24 hours, India registered 25,072 new Covid Positive cases, which is lowest in last 160 days.
In the same duration, 389 deaths were reported pushing the toll to 4,34,756, said the Covid bulletin released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
44,157 recoveries reported in the last 24 hours and with this, total number of recovered cases in India reached 3,16,80,626.
India’s recovery rate from Covid infection has increased to 97.63 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
The active caseload decreased further to 3,33,924, the lowest in the last 155 days.
The active caseloads constitute 1.03 per cent of the total cases, the lowest since March 2020, as per the bulletin released by the health ministry.
The weekly positivity rate remains below 3 per cent for the last 59 days and currently stands at 1.91 per cent.
The daily positivity rate continues to remain below 3 per cent for 28 continuous days and currently stands at 1.94 per cent.
India has administered 58.25 crore doses of vaccine so far under the mass vaccination drive against coronavirus. A total of 50.75 crore total tests have been conducted so far.
Kerala reported a Covid-19 test positivity rate (TPR) of 17.7% — the highest in the past three months on Saturday.
The rate has been showing a steady rise from 14 % on August 16.
