New Delhi:India has reported less than 30K new COVID-19 cases for 13 straight days, the Union Health Ministry update said on Saturday.
The daily new cases have been less than 30,000 for last 13 days with 22,273 fresh infections registered in the last 24 hours. The exponential rise in recoveries in tandem with lower daily new cases has resulted in consistent decline in the active cases and low mortality.
Total recovered cases neared 97.5 lakh (97,40,108) on Saturday. India's cumulative recoveries are highest in the world.
The rising recoveries also improved the recovery rate to 95.78 per cent on Saturday.Currently, the country's present active COVID-19 caseload of 2,81,667 consists of 2.77 per cent of India's total positive cases.
Following the national pursuit, All States/UTs have recovery rate more than 90 per cent. The daily new recoveries recorded in the country have been more than the daily cases registered since the last 29 days. 22,274 cases recovered and were discharged in the last 24 hours. (UNI)