India logs 3,614 new Covid cases

New Delhi: India recorded 3,614 fresh COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours with a positivity rate of 0.44 per cent, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Saturday.

With this increase in new infections, the country’s active caseload has gone up to 40,559. The weekly positivity rate is 0.52 per cent.

The government data shows that 89 COVID-19 fatalities pushed India’s death toll to



5,15,803.

Meanwhile, as many as 5,185 people have been recovered from COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 4,24,31,513, as per government data. At present, the recovery rate is 98.71 per cent.

The Union Health Ministry also informed that about 179.91 crores (1,79,91,57,486) COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive.