Covid: India reports lowest daily cases in 2 months

India added 1.14 lakh new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours till Sunday morning while deaths from Covid-19 rose by 2,667, reports NDTV.

The country's overall caseload now stands at 2.88 crore, while total fatalities are at 3.46 lakh, according to the health ministry.

India's active caseload dropped to 14.77 lakh, with 1.89 lakh people recovering from the infection in the last 24 hours. The active cases in the country have been less than 2 lakhs for ten straight days.

The daily recoveries in the country have been outnumbering the daily cases for the 24th consecutive day now.

About 20 lakh tests were conducted on Saturday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far to 36,47,46,522, while the daily positivity has further declined to 5.62 per cent. It has been less than 10 per cent for 13 consecutive days, the ministry said.

With the addition of 13,659 coronavirus cases, the infection count in Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, has risen to over 58.19 lakh. The recovery rate in the state reached 95.01 per cent while the case fatality rate dropped to 1.71 per cent.

After Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh have the highest number of infections.

Meanwhile in Delhi - which reported 414 new cases of Covid-19, the lowest since March 15 - Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced that markets and shopping malls in the city will be allowed to open on an odd-even basis, similar to the strategy employed to beat air pollution in the national capital.

More than 23 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far in India under the mega inoculation plan. However, states continue to face a shortage of the two vaccines currently being used.