India recorded 1,270 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bumping up the total coronavirus tally of the country to 4,30,20,723, according to data released by the Union Health Ministry.
The active COVID-19 cases in India, however, experienced a dip of 15,859 on the same day.
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The death toll climbed to 5,21,035 with 31 daily fatalities, the data updated by the central government said.
The active cases constitute 0.04% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.75%, the health ministry said.
A reduction of 328 cases was recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.29% while the weekly positivity rate was 0.26%, according to reports from PTI citing the health ministry.
India, citing the recent dip in COVID-19 cases, lifted the restrictions on international air travel on March 27. The restrictions had been in place for more than two years.
“Today is a very important day…All regular international flights services resumed with full capacity from today. During the last two years of the coronavirus pandemic, the international flights were being operated under the air bubble arrangements,” Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia told reporters.
He said he was confident that people from India are eager to go abroad and vice versa.
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“Apart from this, for the summer schedule, 135 new domestic flights were launched today along with 15 international ones. In the morning, the flight service between Gorakhpur and Varanasi was launched. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated it. I took part in the event virtually,” Scindia added.
A lot more flights are now expected to be available as India’s Summer Schedule for 2022 has permitted 60 international airlines from 40 countries to operate 1783 flights in and out of the country.
