active cases saw a decline of 1,608 in a day. It comprises 1.18% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.48%, the ministry said.
The weekly positivity rate stood at 2.49%--less than 3% for the last 75 days. Whereas the daily positivity rate reported was at 2.16%--less than 3% for the last nine days.
Meanwhile, the country's southern-most state Kerala has started to witness a decline in its daily coronavirus cases. After recording 30,000 or more daily cases for several days, Kerala is seeing a gradual decrease in the fresh number of cases.
The state reported 25,772 fresh Covid-19 cases pushing the caseload to 42,53,298. The test positivity rate (TPR) has also declined after it reached nearly