India reported 8865 new Covid infections on Tuesday. This is 13.33 percent less than the cases reported on Monday. The number of deaths reported was 197. This takes the total Covid count of the country to 34456401 since the start of the infection. The fatality rate is 1.34 percent. The recovery rate is 98.27 percent which is the highest since March 2020.
The Union Health ministry said that the daily Covid infections have been lower than 20,000 every day since the past 39 days. The daily positivity rate has been less than 2 percent for 43 days now.
The active cases in India are 130793 which are also the lowest in 287 days.
As of now more than 62 Crore samples have been tested for the virus. India has administered more than 112.97 Crore vaccines till date.
