Coronavirus Live News Updates: India Records 54,069 New Covid Cases, 1,321 Deaths In A Day

Coronavirus Live Updates: The number of active cases has declined to 6,27,057 and is 2.08 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has also improved to 96.61 per cent.

India reported 54,069 new cases of COVID-19 in a day which took the infection tally to 3,00,82,778 while 1,321 more fatalities pushed the death count to 3,91,981, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Thursday. The number of active cases has declined to 6,27,057 and is 2.08 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has also improved to 96.61 per cent. A net decline of 16,137 cases in the COVID-19 caseload has been recorded in a day. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.91 per cent. It has been less than 5 per cent for 17 days in a row. The weekly positivity rate has also declined to 3.04 per cent, the ministry said.