National Covid recovery rate improves to 97.52 per cent, highest since March last year

New Delhi, August 19

India has added 36,401 new Covid infections, taking the total tally of cases to 3,23,22,258, while the death toll has climbed to 4,33,049 with 530 more fatalities, according to Union health ministry data updated on Thursday.

The national recovery rate has improved to 97.52 per cent, the highest since March last year, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The ministry said that active cases had declined to 3,64,129, the lowest in 149 days, and comprised 1.13 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March last year.

A reduction of 3,286 cases has been recorded in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The ministry said 18,73,757 tests were conducted on Wednesday, taking the total tests conducted so far for detection of Covid in the country to 50,03,00,840.

The daily positivity rate has been recorded at 1.94 per cent and it has been less than three per cent for the last 24 days, it said.

The weekly positivity rate has been recorded at 1.95 per cent and it has been below three per cent for the last 55 days, according to the ministry.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has increased to 3,15,25,080, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent, the data stated.

Cumulatively, 56.64 crore Covid vaccine doses have been administered under the nationwide vaccination drive so far.

The 530 fresh fatalities include 179 from Kerala and 158 from Maharashtra.

A total of 4,33,049 deaths have been reported so far in the country, including 1,35,413 from Maharashtra, 37,061 from Karnataka, 34,610 from Tamil Nadu, 25,077 from Delhi, 22,787 from Uttar Pradesh, 19,049 from Kerala and 18,325 from West Bengal. PTI