India’s downward trend in daily COVID-19 cases continued on Tuesday, with the country reporting 6,915 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. According to the Union Health Ministry’s daily health bulletin, India reported 180 COVID-related fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s death toll to 5,14,023. 

Tuesday’s new infection, which was 1,188 or 14% lower than Monday’s tally, takes India’s total confirmed cases to 4,29,31,045. 

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Active cases declined by 10,129 to 92,472 in the last 24 hours, with active cases comprising 0.22% of the total caseload. 

India recorded 16,864 recoveries in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery tally to 4,23,24,550. The national recovery rate stands at 98.59%, against a morbidity rate of 1.20%. 

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.77 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.11 per cent, according to the health ministry.

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The cumulative anti-COVID doses administered in the country so far exceeded 177.70 crore.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23. It 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 180 new fatalities include 110 from Kerala and 20 from Goa.

A total of 5,14,023 deaths have been reported so far in the country — 1,43,701 from Maharashtra, 65,333 from Kerala, 39,950 from Karnataka, 38,004 from Tamil Nadu, 26,122 from Delhi, 23,456 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,176 from West Bengal.

The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

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“Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website, adding that state-wise distribution of figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation.

(With PTI Inputs)