Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 16: India logged 30,615 new instances of the novel coronavirus, with 514 deaths as a result of the infection in the last 24 hours.
According to data released by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday (February 16), the country had a total of 82,988 discharges in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total recovery rate to roughly 97.94% and total recoveries to 4,18,43,446.
The overall number of active Covid-19 cases in India has decreased to 3,70,240.
The country’s total death toll today stands at 5,09,872. The first death from the COVID epidemic was recorded in India in March 2020.
The daily positivity rate has dropped to 2.45 percent.
75,42,84,979 samples had been tested for COVID-19 up till February 15, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). On Tuesday, 12,51,677 of these samples were examined.