COVID cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The number of active cases of COVID in India went past 1.32 lakh (1,32,457).
Active cases now constitute 0.30% of the country's total positive cases. The weekly positivity rate in the country currently stands at 4.26% and the daily positivity rate is reported to be 3.68%.
As many as 45 deaths from the viral infection in the last 24 hours pushed the death toll to 5,25,519 in the country. The 45 new fatalities include 17 from Kerala, 13 from Maharashtra, five from West Bengal, two from Gujarat and one each from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Odisha, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
Delhi logged over 400 new cases in the last 24 hours, whereas the positivity rate in the city stood at nearly 3%. Maharashtra witnessed 2,435 fresh COVID cases.