With 134,154 fresh cases, India's Covid-19 tally has climbed to 28,441,986, while the daily positivity rate has further dropped to 6.21%, the health ministry said on Thursday.
The death toll due to the viral disease has climbed to 337,989 with 2,887 more people succumbing to it, while the number of active Covid-19 cases was recorded below two million for the third consecutive day, according to the ministry's data updated at 8am, reports PTI.
Also, 2,159,873 tests were conducted on Wednesday to detect Covid-19, taking the total number of such tests conducted so far in the country to 353,782,648, while the daily positivity was recorded at 6.21%. It has been less than 10% for 10 consecutive days now, the ministry said.
The weekly positivity rate has declined to 7.66%.
The number of active cases has reduced to 1,713,413, accounting for 6.02% of the total number of cases, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 92.79%.
A net decline of 80,232 cases was recorded in the Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours, the ministry said.
Recoveries continued to outnumber the fresh cases for the 21st day in a row.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 26,390,584, while the case fatality rate has gone up to 1.19%, the data showed.
India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the two million mark on August 7 last year, the three million mark on August 23, the four million mark on September 5, and the five million mark on September 16.
It went past six million on September 28, seven million on October 11, eight million on October 29, nine million on November 20, and the 10 million mark on December 19.
The country crossed the grim milestone of 20 million coronavirus cases on May 4 this year.
