Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 7: India recorded 6,822 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday.
This is the lowest number of fresh cases reported by the country in the last 558 days and 17.9% lower than yesterday. Out of the new COVID-19 cases, Kerala reported 3,277 cases in the last 24 hours. The active caseload in the Country has now reached 95,014 which is lowest in the last 554 days.
The active cases in the country account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at 0.27% which is the lowest since March last year, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Also, the daily positivity rate (0.63%) is less than 2% for the last 64 days, while weekly positivity rate (0.28%) is less than 1% for the last 23 days.
With 10,004 recovieres in the last 24 hours, the cumulative recovery tally in India now stands at 3,40,79,612. The recovery rate is currently at 98.36%.
As many as 220 people lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 4,73,757.