As compared to yesterday's tally, India today reported 115 less daily COVID cases. The country also recorded a significant increase in recoveries with 1,249 more patients recovering today than yesterday.
India recorded 18,815 fresh COVID cases and 38 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Health Ministry data. With this, the active caseload in the country has gone up to 1,22,335.
While the active cases account for 0.28%, the daily and the weekly positivity rate stand at 4.96% and 4.09% respectively. With as many as 38 people succumbing to the viral infection in the last 24 hours, the death toll from the disease has risen to 5,25,343 in the country.
The total number of COVID tests conducted so far has gone up to 86.57 crores with 3,79,470 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.