As many as 50,407 fresh COVID-19 cases were reported in the country, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.
With this, the country's active caseload currently stands at 6,10,443 which accounts for 1.43 per cent of total cases.
The daily positivity rate in India has been recorded at 3.48 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 5.07 per cent.
A total of 1,36,962 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours and the cumulative tally of recovered patients since the beginning of the pandemic is now at 4,14,68,120. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 97.37 per cent while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.
In a first during the third wave, Mumbai reported a positivity rate of under 1 per cent today, a markedly significant drop given the consistently high daily cases reported in the city through December and January.
Here are the Highlights on coronavirus cases in India:
Police patrolling underway with night curfew in place from 11 pm - 5 am in Delhi. Visuals from ITO pic.twitter.com/UUWLCYqRhd
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Tamil Nadu reports 2,812 fresh COVID cases, 11,154 recoveries, and 17 deaths today
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Active cases: 47,643
Death toll: 37,904 pic.twitter.com/BGXDkcpxWN
Mumbai reported 349 new Covid cases and three deaths in the past 24 hours, while clocking a daily positivity rate of 0.88%. This is the first time Mumbai's positivity rate has dropped below 1% in third wave.
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Puducherry witnessed a steep fall in the number of new COVID-19 cases with only 81 fresh infections reported in the Union Territory on Saturday taking the overall tally to 1,65,152.
The Union Territory had reported 149 cases on Friday and taking the overall tally to 1,65,152.
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