New Delhi: India logged 18,132 new COVID-19 infections taking the country's total tally of cases to 3,39,71,607, according to the Union Health Ministry. The death toll climbed to 4,50,782 with 193 fresh fatalities, showed the data updated at 8 am on Monday. Kerala alone reported 10,691 cases and 85 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The recovery of 21,563 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally of recovered patients to 3,32,93,478, the ministry said. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98 per cent, the ministry said.
The active caseload stands at 2,27,347, the lowest in 209 days. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.53 per cent. It has been less than three per cent for the last 108 days now. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.75 per cent, it said.
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The Health Ministry said India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage crossed 95.19 crore doses (95,19,84,373). More than 8.43Cr (8,43,17,810) balance and unutilized COVID vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered, it said.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a total of 58.36 crore samples were tested up to October 10, of which 10,35,797 samples were tested on Sunday.
