New Delhi: India’s COVID curve is improving with each passing day as the country reported 1,67,059 new COVID cases in the past 24 hours on Tuesday. The cases were 20 per cent lower than Monday’s figure of 2.09 lakh.
However, a whopping 1,192 new casualties were recorded in the same time frame.
The new cases reported on Tuesday took the country’s infection tally to 4,14,69,499, as India continues to rank as the second-worst hit by Covid in the world, after the United States.
The toll in the country to 4.96 lakh, including a backlog of 638 deaths reported in Kerala.
The daily positivity rate has nosedived to 11.6 per cent from 15.7 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was at 15.25 per cent.
The active caseload in India currently stands at 17.43 lakh cases, which is 4.2 per cent of the country’s total infections. The national recovery rate is currently at 94.6 per cent.
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