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India has registered a single-day rise of 12,428 new coronavirus cases, the lowest in 238 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

According to the data updated by the health ministry at 8am, the active cases declined to 1,63,816. With the fresh cases, the total tally climbed to 3,42,02,202, while the death toll climbed to 4,55,068 with 356 fresh fatalities.

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The Union Health Ministry also mentioned in its statement that the recovery of 15,951 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally to 33,583,318. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.19 per cent, currently at its highest peak since March 2020.

's recovery rate stands at 98.19 per cent, currently at its highest peak since March 2020.

Active cases presently constitute 0.48 per cent of the country's total positive cases, the lowest since March 2020.

Also in the same period, a total of 1,131,826 tests were conducted across the country.

Meanwhile, the weekly positivity rate at 1.24 per cent has remained less than 2 per cent for the last 32 days now.

The daily positivity rate stands at 1.10 per cent, which has also remained below 2 per cent for last 22 days and less than 3 per cent for 57 consecutive days now.

The country has administered 6,475,733 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours.