NEW DELHI: India on Monday reported 8,309 new Covid-19 cases and 236 deaths in the last 24 hours, the health ministry’s release at 9-00 am stated.
The death toll has climbed to 4,68,790. The country’s total tally of cases now stands at 3,45,80,832.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 52 straight days.

Less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 155 consecutive days now.
The active cases have declined to 1,03,859 comprising 0.30 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, the govt release said. A decrease of 1,832 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.34 per cent, the highest since March 2020. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.09 per cent. It has been less than 2 per cent for last 56 days. Weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 0.85 per cent. It has been below 1 per cent for the last 15 days, according to the health ministry.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,40,08,183 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.36 per cent.
India’s Covid tally went past 60 lakh on September 28, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23
Vaccination update
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 122.41 crore.
(With inputs from agencies)