New Delhi: India has reported 80,834 daily new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
The country has recorded less than 1 lakh daily new cases for 6 continuous days now, said the Union Health Ministry.
India has been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload. The country’s active caseload today stands at 10,26,159. The caseload has been below 20 lakhs for thirteen successive days.
A net decline of 54,531 is witnessed in the last 24 hours and active cases are now only 3.49% of the country’s total positive cases.
As more people are getting recovered from COVID-19 infection, India’s daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for 31 consecutive days now. 1,32,062 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours. 51,228 more recoveries were reported during the last 24 hours as compared to the daily new cases.
Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,80,43,446 people have already recovered from COVID-19 & 1,32,062 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours. This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 95.26%, which is showing a sustained increasing trend, the Health Ministry added.