New Delhi: India continued to report over 3,000 COVID cases for the second day in a row with 3,095 new infections in the last 24 hours, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.
The country recorded the highest one-day fresh infections in the last nearly six months.
The country had reported 3,016 cases on Thursday with a case positivity rate of 2.73 per cent which declined to 2.61 per cent today.
The weekly positivity rate jumped to 1.91 per cent today from 1.71 per cent yesterday.
According to the Ministry, theactive caseload in the country increased from 13,509 yesterday to 15,208 today which is 0.03 of the total number of cases. As many as 1,390 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 4,41,69,711.
The recovery rate in the country currently is 98.78 per cent. The Ministry informed that 220.65 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive, of which 95.20 crore are second doses and 22.86 crore are precaution doses. 6,553 COVID vaccine doses have been administered in last 24 hours, the Ministry said.