India reported 30,615 fresh COVID-19 cases, 11% higher than yesterday’s numbers, and 514 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data updated by the health ministry on Wednesday.

A reduction of 52,887 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a single day. Active cases have reached 3,70,240, comprising 0.87% of the total infections. The daily positivity rate is now 2.45%, while the national recovery rate has further improved to 97.94 per cent, the health ministry said.

At least 4,18,43,446 people have now recovered from the disease with the latest addition of 82,988 recoveries in a single day.

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A total of 173.86 crore COVID vaccine doses have been administered so far. The nation’s mass vaccination campaign was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 16 last year.

The daily COVID-19 cases were recorded as less than one lakh for ten consecutive days.

Citing significant improvement in the COVID-19 situation, the Election Commission on Saturday further relaxed pandemic-induced restrictions on the upcoming assembly poll campaign in five states.

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Meanwhile, omicron is now the dominant variant behind COVID-19 cases in the country, the government said in a press conference in early February this year.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and 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 last year.

(With PTI inputs)