coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 27 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 116 consecutive days now.
The active cases comprise 0.52% of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.15%, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
An increase of 733 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. As many as 12,47,506 tests were conducted on Wednesday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 59,57,42,218.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.48%. It has been less than 3% for last 52 days. The weekly positivity rate was also