India reported less than 40,000 Covid cases for the first time in the last 102 days at 37,566, and the daily death toll also remained below 1,000-mark at 907 for the second straight day, as per the Health Ministry data. Cumulatively, India reported 3,03,16,897 cases of the total active caseload stood at 5,52,659, and the death toll was 3,97,637 till 8:00 AM on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the States where the active cases are concentrated include Maharashtra, Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. On Tuesday, there was a steep fall in daily Covid infections in Maharashtra at 6,727 compared to the previous day’s numbers of 9,974 infections. Also, in Kerala, the daily infections fell to 8,063 from Monday’s cases of 10,905 and Karnataka’s cases to 2,576 from 3,604. Odisha cases also fell to 3,319 from 3,408, and Tamil Nadu reported 4,804 cases against the previous day’s infections of 5,127, as per the data.

The total recoveries across the country stood at 2,93,66,601 and 56,994 patients recovered during the last 24 hours. Also, this is the 47th consecutive day when daily recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases for the 47th straight day, and the recovery rate further increased to 96.87 per cent.

Besides this, the weekly positivity rate remained below 5 per cent, currently at 2.74 per cent and the daily positivity rate is at 2.12 per cent, less than 5 per cent for 22 consecutive days. Also, India conducted 17,68,008 tests during the previous day, and the testing capacity substantially ramped up to a total of 40.81 crore tests.

Meanwhile, India’s vaccination drive under the revised vaccination regime is in full swing. So far, the country has administered more than 32.920 crore vaccine doses, with 52,76,457 doses given in the last 24 hours till 8:00 AM.

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