India saw a single day rise of 3,688 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,75,864, while the active cases increased to 18,684, the government said on Saturday.
According to the Union Health Ministry data updated at 8 am, the death toll rose to 5,23,803 with 50 more fatalities.
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Saturday 23 Nov. 2024
The active cases constituted 0.04 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent, the health ministry said.
An increase of 883 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of last 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.74 per cent and weekly positivity rate at 0.66 per cent, the data said.
The number of people who have recovered from the disease has increased to 4,25,33,377, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.22 per cent.
The number of doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 188.89 crore.
India’s COVID-19 tally crossed the two crore-mark on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year.
