Covid: India reports 39,796 new infections, 723 deaths in last 24-hour

With 39,796 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, India's cumulative active tally of COVID-19 cases surged to 4,82,071 on Monday, according to the latest update by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The country continues to witness a steady decline in COVID-19 cases as it has registered less than 40,000 cases again since June 29 when 37,566 new COVID-19 cases were reported.

India on Monday recorded 723 deaths and added 39,796 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, said the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry. India recorded 780 deaths on April 8 and 738 deaths on July 3. The daily positivity rate in the country stands at 2.61 per cent.

The national recovery rate now stands at 97.11 per cent and this is the ninth consecutive day when the country recorded less than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases, the Ministry added. With 42,352 recoveries in the last 24 hours, daily recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases for the 53rd consecutive day, it said.

As many as 15,22,504 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking the total count to 41,97,77,457: Indian Council of Medical Research.

The Health Ministry said that a total of 35,28,92,046 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 14,81,583 who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 183.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.97 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.1 billion.