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India records 13,615 new Covid-19 cases, 20 deaths in last 24 hours

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NEW DELHI: India recorded 13,615 new cases of Covid-19 and 20 fatalities in the last 24 hours, as per data released by the Union health ministry.

The country's active caseload currently stands at 1,31,043. Over the last two years, India has recorded 4,36,52,944 Covid-19 cases, with death toll at 5,25,474.

Delhi has an active caseload of 1,942, Maharashtra has 18,027 cases, Haryana 1,757 cases, while Kerala has more than 26,643 Covid-19 active cases as of now.

Tamil Nadu has 18,802 active cases and Karnataka 6,718 active cases. The increasing Covid numbers have pushed up the daily positivity rate to 3.23% while the weekly positivity rate stands at 4.24%.

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