India reports 12,830 new COVID-19 cases, active caseload drops to lowest in 247 days

The country has so far seen 3.42 crore infections, of which, 3.36 crore have recovered, while 4.58 lakh have succumbed to the virus.

New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday (October 31, 2021) informed that India reported 12,830 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the country's active coronavirus caseload has dropped to 1,59,272, which is the lowest in 247 days. A decline of 2,283 infections has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The Health Ministry stated that the active cases account for less than 1% of the total cases and is currently at 0.46%, the lowest since March 2020.

India also saw 14,667 fresh recoveries and 446 deaths in the last 24 hours.

The country has so far recorded 3.42 crore infections, of which, 3.36 crore have recovered, while 4.58 lakh have succumbed to the virus.

So far, India has conducted 60.83 crore tests and the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 1.18 per cent.

Meanwhile, more than 106.14 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far across the country. The Health Ministry informed that over 13 crore balance and unutilized vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered.

Earlier on Saturday, during G-20 Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India is preparing to produce over 5 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses in 2022. PM Modi in his intervention at the session on 'Global Economy and Global Health' also flagged the issue of facilitating international travel and talked about the mechanism of mutual recognition of vaccine certification as a means of achieving this.

The Prime Minister said that to fight COVID-19, we all have put forward the vision of 'One Earth - One Health' and to deal with any such crisis in future, this vision can become a huge force in the world.