New Delhi: India registered 37,566 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
This is for the first time that the country has reported less than 40,000 daily new cases in over three months.
As many as 907 deaths have been recorded in the last day taking the total fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic to over 3.97 lakhs.
India’s active caseload has declined to 5,52,659 infections. Only 1.82 per cent of total cases are active.
The weekly positivity rate is currently at 2.74 per cent while the daily positivity rate is 2.12 per cent for 22 consecutive days.