New Delhi, Oct 5: India logged 18,346 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 209 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,38,53,048, while the active cases declined to 2,52,902, the lowest in 201 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The death toll climbed to 4,49,260 with 263 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections have remained below 30,000 for 11 straight days. The active cases comprise 0.75 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.93 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
A decrease of 11,556 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. As many as 11,41,642 tests were conducted on Monday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 57,53,94,042.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.61 per cent. It has been less than three per cent for last 36 days.
The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.66 per cent. It has been below three per cent for the last 102 days, according to the ministry. (PTI)
