India’s average daily deaths have registered a decline of 55% in last one month, according to the data available with the Union health ministry.
From a high of 211 in the second week of January 2021, average daily deaths have reduced to 96 in the second week of February, 2021, the data shows.As the number of tests conducted has touched 20.2 crores or 146,802 per million in India, the cumulative positivity rate of covid-19 in India stands at 5.35% as on Tuesday.
At least 9,110 new cases have been registered in the last 24 hours and 78 deaths were recorded in same period. Five States/UTs account for 64.1% of the new deaths.