India posts 1.86 lakh new Covid -19 cases in 24 hours, lowest in 44 days

NEW DELHI: India recorded 186,364 case and 3,660 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard on Friday.

After Friday’s additions, the overall nationwide tally now stands at 27,555,457, while the death toll has increased to 315,235.

For the fifteenth consecutive day, recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases as 259,459 people were recuperated from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, it also showed.

The recovery rate has increased to 90.34%, while the weekly positivity rate currently at 10.42%, as per the health ministry figures.

The number of active cases has dropped to 2,343,152.

On August 7 last year, India’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 20 lakh mark. It breached the 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.

It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19 last year.

India crossed the grim milestone of 20 million infections on May 4 this year.

The second Covid-19 wave in India is now on the “downswing,” the Centre said on Thursday, highlighting that the current number of active cases is still “very high” and advised states and Union territories (UTs) to not let down their guards.

The Indian government also stressed that any relaxation of curbs by the states and the union territories(UTs) may be considered at an appropriate time in a graded manner.