This marked a marginal rise from Sunday, when 16,103 people had tested positive Marking a marginal rise from Sunday, when 16,103 people tested positive, India reported 16,135 fresh COVID-19 cases, pushing the overall caseload to 43,518,564, the Union health ministry said on Monday.
As many as 24 people succumbed to the disease taking the total number of fatalities to 525,223. The cumulative tally of active patients continued to rise with 113,864, up from 111,7111 on Sunday.
Meanwhile, with 13,958 people recuperating in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries rose to 42,879,477. Recoveries, deaths and active patients constitute 98.53%, 1.21% and 0.26% of the overall tally.
The daily positivity rate presently stands at 4.85% as the latest daily infections were from 332,978 samples that were tested on Sunday.