India reported over three lakh new COVID-19 infections for the fifth straight day even though the caseload over the last 24 hours was eight per cent lower than a day before, data released by the government showed.
With the addition of 3.06 lakh cases reported today, the Covid tally in India – the second worst-hit country after the US – now stands at 3.95 crore.
The active cases now comprise 5.69 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has decreased to 93.07 per cent. The daily positivity rate – the share of coronavirus tests that return positive and considered a key marker of the pandemic’s status – is up from 17.78% to 20.75% while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 17.03 per cent.