India has reported 2,568 fresh coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours – a marginal spike of 65 cases in comparison to Monday’s tally. The overall Covid cases in the country – logged since the start of the pandemic – stand at 4,29,96,062. In the last 24 hours, 97 deaths were logged, taking the total number of deaths due to the viral disease to 5,15,974.
At 33,917, the active Covid-19 cases are 0.08 per cent of the total infections, the latest government data showed on Tuesday. While the daily positivity rate stood at below 1 per cent (0.37), the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 0.46 per cent.A total of 4,722 patients have recovered since yesterday, taking the total number of recoveries to 4,24,46,171. The current recovery rate stood at 98.72 per cent, says the government.
Covid cases in India have been steadily decreasing after seeing a resurgence in mid-January owing to the highly infectious Omicron variant when the daily tally crossed the 3-lakh mark.
