Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 6: India recorded 16,159 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 4,35,47,809 while the number of active cases grew to 1,15,212, according to data released today by the Union Health Ministry.
The figures updated at 8 am showed that the death toll increased to 5,25,270 with 28 more fatalities.
The government reported that the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.53 percent, while the active cases make up 0.26 percent of all infections.In the last 24 hours, there has been an increase of 737 cases in the COVID-19 active caseload.
According to the ministry, the weekly positivity rate was 3.84 percent and the daily positivity rate was 3.56 percent.
[The case fatality rate was reported at 1.21 percent, and the number of patients who have recovered from the illness has increased to 4,29,07,327.
The ministry reports that 198.20 crore doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have thus far been distributed throughout the nation.
On August 7, 2020, India’s COVID-19 total had reached 20 lakh, on August 23, it reached 30 lakh, on September 5 it reached 40 lakh, and on September 16 it reached 50 lakh. It exceeded the 60 lakh threshold on September 28, the 70 lakh threshold on October 11, the 80 lakh threshold on October 29, the 90 lakh threshold on November 20, and the 1 crore threshold on December 19.
On May 4 and June 23 of last year, the nation reached the depressing two and three crore populations, respectively. On January 25 of this year, the four-crore threshold was crossed.
The 28 additional deaths include six each from Kerala and Maharashtra, three from Delhi and West Bengal, two from Goa and Karnataka, one from each of Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh, and one from each of Delhi and West Bengal.