India’s coronavirus disease (Covid-19) count reached 8,553,657 on Monday after 45,903 new cases were recorded, according to the Union Ministry of Health.
The country recorded 490 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 1,26,611.
Monday’s case count (a tally of the number of Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours) increased slightly from yesterday’s 45,674 infections.
The case fatality rate is 1.48% and the number of active Covid-19 cases remained below 6 lakh for the eleventh consecutive day on Monday.
The number of active cases fell to 5,09,673, which represents about six percent of the total number of cases, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
India’s Covid-19 count had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, and 40 lakh on September 5. It went from 50 lakh on September 16, 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, and crossed 80 lakh on October 29.
According to the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 11,77,36,791 samples have been analyzed as of November 7, with 11,94,487 samples analyzed on Saturday.
Meanwhile, India’s cumulative Covid-19 positivity rate, the number of samples testing positive out of the total number of samples tested for a disease, is steadily decreasing, according to the government.
Government data shows that in the past three weeks, the positivity rate has dropped to 7.23% on November 8 from 7.94% on October 19.
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