COVID-19 alert: India reports 42,625 fresh cases, daily positivity rate at 2.31%

India reported 42,625 new coronavirus infections while as many as 562 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, Health Ministry`s data on Wednesday showed.

New Delhi: India on Wednesday reported 42,625 new coronavirus infections that pushed its tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,17,69,132 while as many as 562 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, as per Health Ministry data. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore coronavirus cases on May 4 and three crore cases on June 23.

The national COVID-19 recovery rate rose to 97.37 per cent with 3,09,33,022 total recoveries across the country, the data updated at 8 am showed. India's active caseload is currently at 4,10,353 which constitute 1.29% of total cases, an increase of 5,395 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours.

While the daily positivity rate is at 2.31%, the weekly positivity rate is at 2.36%. At least 47,31,42,307 samples were tested for COVID-19 till August 3 of which 18,47,518 samples were tested on Tuesday, the Indian Council of Medical Research said.

Cumulatively, 48.52 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the country, so far.