For the fifth day in a row, India’s daily Covid count remained below 1 lakh with the country reporting 84,332 new cases on Saturday, the lowest in 70 days, according to the data updated by the Union health ministry. With this, the country’s total tally has gone up to 29,359,155. On June 8, India reported 86,498 Covid cases, the lowest in 63 days.
Meanwhile, active caseload has further declined by 40,981 to 1,080,690. Recovery rate has improved to 95.07%. A total of 1,21,311 patients were discharged yesterday, taking the total recovery numbers to 27,911,384. Daily positivity rate is at 4.39%, which is less than 10% for 19 consecutive days. According to health ministry, testing has substantially been ramped up in the country. A total of 37.62 crore samples have been tested for Covid so far.
News Source : The Indian Express
