The number of cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) registered on Wednesday was 44,281, bringing the national count to 86,36,011, according to the website of the Union Ministry of Health.
The country also registered 512 new deaths in the last 24 hours and the death toll reached 1,27,571.
But, in a remarkable development, the number of active cases fell below the five lakh mark for the first time after 106 days, the Health Ministry said. Active cases in the country are 4,94,657.
“This becomes important in the context of many countries reporting an increase in their burden of active cases,” he said Wednesday morning. The ministry called it an “unprecedented peak.”
On Tuesday, he said that India has conducted the second highest number of tests for the detection of Covid-19 cases in the world, at 11.96 million rupees, with rapid antigen tests comprising 49 percent and RT-PCR. 46 percent of the total tests. .
The union’s health secretary, Rajesh Bhushan, told a press conference that the positivity rate is declining and has dropped to 7.18 percent. The daily rate of positivity in the past week was 4.2 percent, he said.
“If we take into account the figures of the last two weeks, we are testing more than any other country in the world,” Bhushan said.
Bhushan further stated that India still ranks among the countries with the lowest cases per million inhabitants. While the world average of cases per million is 6,439, India has 6,225 cases per million.
He said that India recorded an average of three new Covid-19 deaths per million inhabitants in the past seven days compared to the global average of seven new deaths per million inhabitants.
The health secretary, however, appealed that everyone should be cautious in the ongoing festival season and always wear a face cover or mask in the proper manner, keep a distance of 6 feet from others, and wash hands with water. and soap frequently.
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