India reports 1,225 new COVID-19 cases, 28 deaths in last 24 hours

The Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that India reported 1,225 new coronavirus infections in a day, while the infection tally rose to 4,30,24,440. The active cases dipped to 14,307.

The death toll climbed to 5,21,129 with 28 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

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The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said. A reduction of 397 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The country’s daily Covid positivity rate was recorded at 0.20 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 0.23 per cent.

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A total of 78.91 crore Covid tests have been conducted so far, with 6,07,987 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.

India’s COVID-19 tally had surpassed the one crore-mark on December 19, 2020. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year.