India reports 11,106 COVID-19 cases in a day, active cases down to 1.26 lakh

India reported 11,106 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking the country’s tally to 3,44,89,623, while the active cases have declined to 1,26,620, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

The death toll has climbed to 4,65,082 with 459 daily fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 42 straight days, and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 145 consecutive days now.

“The active cases have increased to 1,26,620 comprising 0.37 percent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.28 percent, the highest since March 2020,” the Health Ministry said.

A decrease of 2,142 cases has been recorded in the active number of COVID-19 cases in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.98 percent. It has been less than two percent for last 46 days. Weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 0.92 percent. It has been below two percent for the last 56 days.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,38,97,921 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.35 percent.

The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 115.23 crore.

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India’s COVID-19 tally surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.

The 459 new fatalities include 372 from Kerala and 24 from Maharashtra. Of the 372 deaths, 51 were reported over the last few days and 321 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and the directions of the Supreme Court, a Kerala state government release said on Thursday.

A total of 4,65,082 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,40,692 from Maharashtra, 38,165 from Karnataka, 36,847 from Kerala, 36,336 from Tamil Nadu 25,095 from Delhi, 22,909 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,355 from West Bengal.

The Health Ministry stressed that more than 70 percent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

(With inputs from Agencies)