active cases shrink to 1,379. So far, 4.24 crore people have recovered from Covid -19 in the country since March 2020 while 5,16,352 have died due to respiratory infection.
As many as 3,383 people got recovered from Covid-19 in the past day. The daily positivity rate stands at 0.56% and the weekly positivity rate was the same at 0.41% on Saturday.
A total number of 78.22 crore tests have been conducted so far. Of these, 3,70,514 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 181.04 crore as per provisional reports till 7 am today. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that this has been achieved through 2,12,97,331 sessions.