India’s COVID Positivity Rate Drops To 7.9%; 1.28 Lakh New Cases

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New Delhi: India logged 1,27,952 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours on Sunday, which is 14 per cent lower than Saturday.

India’s positivity rate dropped to 7.9 per cent. The active cases comprise 3.16 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate dipped to 95.64 per cent.

The number of COVID cases has been rising rapidly due to the new variant Omicron since December. India’s active caseload now stands at 13,31,648.

Also, 1,059 new COVID-related deaths were witnessed in the last 24 hours.

There were at least 2,30,814 recoveries in the last 24 hours that took the total number of recoveries to 4,02,47,902.

The daily Covid positivity rate stands at 7.98 per cent while the weekly positivity rate stands at 11.21 per cent.

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