India reported a total of 1,778 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 4,30,12,749.
In the country, the death toll has reached 5,16,605 with 62 new fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours. As per the Union health minister, the active cases declined further to 23,087 on Wednesday.
According to the ministry data, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.26 percent and the weekly positivity rate was 0.36 percent.
