New Delhi: India logged 6,822 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 558 days, taking the country’s total tally of Covid cases to 3,46,48,383, while the active cases declined to 95,014, the lowest in 554 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The death toll climbed to 4,73,757 with 220 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been recorded below 10,000 for 11 straight days and less than 50,000 for 163 consecutive days now.
The active cases comrpise 0.27 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national recovery rate was recorded at 98.36 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
A decrease of 3,402 cases has been recorded in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The 220 new fatalities include 168 from Kerala and 10 from Tamil Nadu.
Of the 168 deaths reported in Kerala on Monday, 30 were logged over the last few days and 138 were designated as Covid deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and the directions of the Supreme Court.
A total of 4,73,757 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,41,175 from Maharashtra, 41,768 from Kerala, 38,237 from Karnataka, 36,539 from Tamil Nadu, 25,099 from Delhi, 22,911 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,553 from West Bengal.