India recorded 1,300 fresh Covid cases and three deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry data on Thursday.
The country’s total active caseload currently stands at 7,605 which is 0.02 percent of total cases.
With the fresh fatalities, one each from Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra, the death toll due to the virus reached 5,30,816.
The recovery of 718 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,41,60,997. Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.79 percent.
The daily positivity rate stands at 1.46 percent, while the weekly positivity rate is at 1.08 percent.
Also in the same period, a total of 89,078 tests were conducted across the country, taking the total number of tests to over 92.06 crores.
India has administered a total of 220.65 crore vaccines against Covid that includes 7,530 doses of vaccines in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
