India's Lowest Single-Day Rise (18,346) In Covid Cases Since Early March

India's COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.93 per cent, highest since March 2020.

New Delhi: India reported the lowest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases in 209 days with 18,346 new infections in the last 24 hours - the country had reported 20,799 cases yesterday. At least 263 deaths due to coronavirus were also recorded in the last 24 hours.

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The active cases comprise 0.75 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020 -- the active caseload at present is 2,52,902, lowest in 201 days.
The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.93 per cent, highest since March 2020. At least 29,639 recoveries in the last 24 hours took the total number of recoveries to 3,31,50,886 in India.
The daily positivity rate - number of positive cases identified per 100 - stands at 1.61 per cent, less than 3 per cent for last 36 days. The weekly positivity rate stands at 1.66 per cent in India.
Seventy percent of India's adult population has been administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said. According to officials, 25 percent of the adult population has been administered both doses. More than 91.54 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the country till now.
Kerala, which is showing a decline in daily fresh cases after crossing the 30,000-mark post Onam festival in August, recorded 8,850 cases. Colleges and other higher education institutions in Kerala have opened up for students after a gap of one-and-a-half years, with COVID-19 protocols in place.
Delhi reported 34 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking active cases in the national capital to 398. The city reported zero fatality due to the disease in the last 24 hours.
The Mumbai civic body has told the Bombay High Court that it does not apprehend a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city as the vaccination drive is going on smoothly, with over 42 lakh people fully vaccinated and over 82 lakh people having received the first dose. Mumbai added 341 new infections and two deaths while the active case count stands at 4,532.
West Bengal recorded 601 new COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths, which took the overall caseload to 15,71,841.
A total of 333 COVID-19 positive cases and nine deaths were recorded in Assam. The recovery rate of the state stood at 98.33 per cent while the overall positivity percentage was 0.66 per cent.
The Supreme Court accepted the centre's submission that Rs 50,000 compensation will be paid to the relatives of those who died after contracting the coronavirus. The financial compensation - that will include past and future deaths related to the virus - will be provided in addition to the existing schemes launched by the states.