COVID-19 cases in India: Daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.41 percent (File)
New Delhi:
India registered 3,116 new coronavirus infections, its lowest in 676 days, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 4,29,90,991 while the number of active cases fell to 38,069, according to health ministry data updated Sunday.
The death toll rose to 5,15,850 with 47 new fatalities, the data said.
Active cases comprise 0.09 percent of total infections and the national COVID-19 recovery rate further improved to 98.71 percent, the ministry said.
A reduction of 2,490 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a 24-hour timeframe.
The daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.41 percent, according to the ministry, while the weekly positivity rate was 0.50 percent.
The number of people who have recovered from the disease rose to 4,24,37,072 while the death rate was recorded at 1.20 percent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far as part of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign have surpassed 180.13 crore.
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Barack Obama has tested positive for a mild case of Covid-19, the former US president said on his Twitter account on Sunday.
“I’ve had a sore throat for a few days but otherwise feel fine,” Obama tweeted, adding that his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, has tested negative so far.
“Michelle and I are grateful to have been vaccinated and boosted,” he wrote.
Obama, plus former fellow presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton — and the former first ladies — appeared together in a one-minute video released last March, in which they endorsed the US vaccination campaign and shared what they missed on pre-pandemic life.
