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COVID-19: India Logs 796 New Cases, 19 Deaths

The active cases comprise 0.03 🐎per cent of the total infections, while♚ the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

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India recorded 796 new coronavirus infections taking the total talᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚly of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,36,928, while the active cases dipped to 10,889, according to the ꧒Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

The death toll climbed to 5,21,710 with 19 fresh fatalit🅺ies, the data updated at 8 am stated.

The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of𓃲 the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

A reduction of 169 case🍷s has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.20 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was 0.24 per cent, according to 🔥the mi🧔nistry.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,25,04, 329, while the case fatality rate was recor🐼ded as 1.21 per cent. 

The cumulativ👍e doses ﷺadministered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 185.90 crore. 

Indi📖a's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one♋-crore mark on December 19. 

The country crossed the gri🐻m milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year.

🌠The 19 new fatalities include 18 from Kerala and one from Mizoram. 

A total of 5,21,710 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,47,816 from Maharashtra, 68,383 from Kerala, 40,057 from Karnataka, 38,025 from Tamil Nadu,💦 26,157 from Delhi, 23,499 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,200 from  West Bengal.

The ministry✅ stressed that moඣre than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

"Our figures are being reconciled with the Indianꦕ Council of Medical Research," the ministry said on its website, adding that state-wise distribution of figures is subject to fu༺rther verification and reconciliation.