Coronavirus Cases in India: Country has been seeing more daily recoveries than infections for 45 days.
New Delhi:
India recorded 29,164 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours – less than 30,000 in a day for the first time in over four months, government coronavirus data shows. With this, the country’s total Covid case count since the January outbreak stands at 88,74,291.
The daily case count has dropped to under 30,000 for the first time since July 15, when India recorded 29,429 fresh infections. The country’s Covid chart rose steadily after that to more than 90,000 cases a day in mid-September – the peak of India’s first coronavirus wave, which has declined steadily since October.
India has also recorded more daily new recoveries than cases for 45 successive days, bringing its active caseload down to 4.53 lakh; 40,791 patients fought off the viral disease successfully in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate has improved to 93.4 per cent. The total recovered cases stand at 82,90,371.
In the one-day period, 449 people lost their life to COVID-19, taking the overall fatalities to 1,30,519.
