The national Covid-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.70 per cent!
New Delhi: On Friday, India reported 6,093 new coronavirus infections, taking the total cases of COVID-19 to 4,44,84,729, while the active cases declined to 49,636, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.
The country also reported 31 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 5,28,121.
The active cases comprise 0.11 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.70 per cent, the Health Ministry said.
A decline of 706 cases has been recorded so far in the active coronavirus infection in a span of 24 hours.
On Friday, 123 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.06 per cent was recorded in Delhi, while four more people succumbed to the disease, according to data shared by the health department.
The new cases were detected from 11,567 tests conducted on Thursday, the department said in its latest Health bulletin.
With the fresh cases and fatalities, Delhi's infection tally increased to 20,01,432 and the death toll reached 26,491, it said.
On Thursday, the city logged 182 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.37 per cent and three fatalities. The day before, it recorded 177 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.36 per cent, and two deaths.
The government did not issue any Health bulletin on Monday and Tuesday.
On Sunday, the national capital recorded 218 cases with a positivity rate of 1.93 per cent.
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