Coronavirus: India records lowest single-day spike in 46 days with 1.65 new COVID-19 cases

As many as 1,65,553 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload to 2,78,94,800, said the Union health ministry on Sunday morning.

India on Sunday reported the lowest number of new Covid-19 cases in 46 days with a single-day rise of 1.65 lakh cases. India's Covid caseload stands at more than 2.78 crore and the death toll at over 3.25 lakh, as per the official count.

On the brighter side, recoveries in the country have outnumbered new cases for the seventeenth day with 2,76,309 people getting discharged. This took the total number of discharges to 2,54,54,320.

Consequently, the active tally has dipped by 1,14,216 to reach 21,14,508, comprising 7.58%of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 91.25%.

India has tested 34,31,83,748 samples for Covid-19 until now, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

India has so far vaccinated 21 crore people. The government aims to vaccinate the entire country by the end of this year.  

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