Coronavirus: India reports less than 50,000 daily new cases for six continuous days
Coronavirus India Updates: India has been reporting less than 50,000 daily new cases of COVID-19 for six continuous days. On Saturday, the country reported 44,111 new cases in the last 24 hours.
India has also been witnessing a continuous decline in the active caseload as it stands at 4,95,533, less than 5 lakh after 97 days.
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A net decline of 14,104 is witnessed in the last 24 hours while the active cases were now only 1.62 percent of the country's total Positive Cases.
As more people in India were getting recovered from COVID-19 infection, India’s daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for 51 consecutive days now. 57,477 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours.
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As per the coronavirus updates, more than 13,000 (13,366) recoveries were reported in India during the last 24 hours as compared to the daily new cases.
Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,96,05,779 people have already recovered from COVID-19 and 57,477patients have recovered in the last 24 hours.
This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 97.06 percent, which is showing a sustained increasing trend.
While on one side testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, a continued decline in weekly case positivity is noticed. The weekly positivity rate is currently at 2.50 percent while the daily positivity rate stands at 2.35 percent on Saturday.
The daily positivity rate has remained less than 5 percent for 26 consecutive days now.
-PTC News
