Mumbai: India on Monday recorded 30,256 Covid-19 cases, 295 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours. Kerala remained the leading contributor with 19,653 infections and 152 deaths.
The overall nationwide tally was 33,478,419, while the death toll stands at 445,133, according to the Health Ministry.
The active cases decreased to 318,181 and now comprises 0.95 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020. Meanwhile, the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.72 per cent.
The number of people recovered surged to 32,715,105, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent, the health ministry also mentioned. Weekly positivity rate (2.07%) less than 3% for last 87 days.
After Kerala, Maharashtra was the second contributor to the daily cases of the country. On Sunday, the state reported 3,413 new Covid-19 infections of which Mumbai logged 420 fresh cases, as per the state health bulletin.
With this, the state tally mounted to 65,21,915 including 42,955 active cases.
According to the governement, more than 79.58 crore vaccine doses have been provided till now, and more than 15 lakh doses are in the pipeline. Over 5.43 crore vaccine doses are still available
Active cases account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at 0.95%; lowest since March 2020.
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