India posts lowest daily rise in Covid cases in nearly 3 months
With 58,419 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India recorded less than 60,000 fresh infections after 81 days, according to the union health ministry's data on Sunday.
The country witnessed as many as 1576 deaths and 87,619 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
With the new cases, the cumulative caseload has climbed to 29,881,965 including 729,243 active cases.
The daily positivity rate in the country stands at 3.22 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate is currently at 3.43 per cent.
The daily positivity rate has remained below 5 per cent for 13 consecutive days.
As many as 386,713 people have succumbed to the Covid-19 infection so far, while the recoveries reached 28,766,009.
As daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 38th consecutive day, the recovery rate is currently at 96.27 per cent.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 391,019,083 samples were tested for Covid-19, up to 19 June out of these, 1,811,446 samples were tested on Saturday.
The union health ministry informed that 276,693,572 vaccine doses have been administered so far under the vaccination drive in the country.