Covid-19 infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.47 per cent, the ministry said. An increase of 2,689 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
Meanwhile, India reported 20,044 new Covid cases on Saturday crossing the 20,000 mark for the third consecutive day, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.
The country had logged 20,038 infections on Friday. With this, the active cases in the country rose to 1,40,760 which was 1,39,073 on Friday.
According to the Ministry, 18,301 COVID patients recovered on Sunday and the number of recoveries since the onset of the pandemic stands at 4,30,63,651.