India registers lowest coronavirus cases in 160 days
- Last updated: August 23, 2021 | 11:26
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India on Monday reported a substantial decline in fresh coronavirus cases with a total of 25,072 cases registered in the last 24 hours across the country, the Union Health Ministry informed on Monday.
Meanwhile, 389 deaths were reported pushing the toll to 4,34,756, said the COVID bulletin released by the health ministry.
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The Ministry added that India's cumulative coronavirus count has gone up to 32.45 million cases and 434,756 people have succumbed to the infection so far.
Less than 50,000 daily cases have been reported in the past 57 consecutive days now.
The weekly positivity rate remains below 3 per cent for the last 59 days and currently stands at 1.91 per cent.
India's recovery rate from COVID infection has increased to 97.63 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
The active caseload also registered a major decline of 19,474 in the past 24 hours, and cumulatively stands at 3,33,924, the lowest in the last 155 days.
A total 44,157 patients were discharged from the hospitals and health centres in the last 24 hours.
As per the bulletin released by the health ministry, the active caseloads constitute 1.03 per cent of the total cases, the lowest since March 2020.
A total 44,157 patients were discharged from the hospitals and health centres in the last 24 hours, taking the number of cured to 3,16,80,626 in India.
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.
After hitting a record high of 9.2 million doses on June 21, the pace of daily inoculations had dropped to around 4.2 million on an average in July, according to data compiled from the government's CoWIN website.
In the first two weeks of August, India administered about 5 million doses on an average everyday.