Recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent!
New Delhi: According to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday, 2,828 new coronavirus infections were recorded in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,31,53,043, while the active cases increased to 17,087.
The number of deaths climbed to 5,24,586 with 14 fresh fatalities.
According to the Health Ministry, the active cases comprise 0.04 percent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 percent.
An increase of 779 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in 24 hours.
According to the ministry, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.60 percent, and the weekly percent rate was 0.56 percent.
Shanghai authorities will cancel many conditions for businesses to resume work from Wednesday, a city official said on Sunday, easing a city-wide lockdown that began some two months ago and introducing policies to support its battered economy.
China's commercial hub of Shanghai reported a broad decline in its economy last month as Covid-19 outbreaks prompted stringent restrictions and lockdowns, impacting manufacturing to retail sales and its property sector.
Now, the city government will revise guidelines for epidemic prevention and control of returning to work, cancel "unreasonable restrictions" on the resumption of work and production for enterprises and remove a "white-list", Vice Mayor Wu Qing told a news briefing, referring to a list of companies that are allowed to resume work.
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