Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 27: India reported 2,86,384 new Covid-19 cases and 573 deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the Union health ministry on Thursday morning.
The country’s positivity rate shot up from 16.16 per cent to 19.59 per cent. while, the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 17.75 percent.
India’s active cases remained at 2.2 million, 5.46 percent of the total infections, with 22,02,472 infections. In the previous 24 hours, the active count has reduced by 20,546 cases.
According to today’s health bulletin, the total number of infections in the country has reached 40.37 million.
Kerala has the highest number of new cases among the states. According to the most recent available data, the southern state recorded 49,771 infections in a 24-hour period. Karnataka came in second with 48,905 new cases, and Maharashtra came in third with 35,756 new cases.
According to the health bulletin issued on Wednesday evening, the national capital has 7,436 new infections Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh continued to record more than 10,000 cases.
Since yesterday, there have been 3,06,357 recoveries, bringing the recovery rate to 93.33 percent. So date, more than 37.6 million people have been cured of the condition.
In the last 24 hours, 14,62,261 tests were performed, and 22,35,267 persons received their vaccine dose. According to the health ministry’s data, the 15-18 age group received a total of 2,65,238 booster doses and 1,79,381 injections.