India reports 31,222 new COVID-19 cases, 290 deaths in 24 hours, Kerala still biggest contributor

As of now, there are 3,92,864 active cases and the country’s overall COVID-19 caseload had reached 3,30,58,843. Kerala still remains the biggest contributor.

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday reported 31,222 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, slightly lower than those recorded on Monday, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. During this period, the country recorded 290 deaths, taking the total toll to 441,042.

As of now, there are 3,92,864 active cases and the country’s overall COVID-19 caseload had reached 3,30,58,843. "Single-day rise of 31,222 COVID-19 cases, 290 fatalities push India's infection tally to 3,30,58,843, death toll to 4,41,042,'' the Health Ministry said in an official statement. 

India reports 31,222 new #COVID19 cases, 42,942 recoveries and 290 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Health Ministry

Active cases: 3,92,864
Total cases: 3,30,58,843
Total recoveries: 3,22,24,937
Death toll: 4,41,042

Total vaccination: 69,90,62,776 pic.twitter.com/heyaJn6PBm — ANI (@ANI) September 7, 2021

According to the Health Ministry data, of 31,222 new cases and 290 deaths reported in India in the last 24 hours, Kerala recorded 19,688 cases and 135 deaths. Kerala still remains the biggest contributor to the daily COVID-19 count. 

The case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent. The active cases have declined to 3,92,864 comprising 1.19 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.48 per cent, the Health Ministry said.

India recorded 38,948 new COVID-19 cases and 219 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall caseload to 3,30,27,621 and total death toll to 4,40,752, as per data released by the Ministry of Health on Monday (September 6, 2021). 

The country also recorded 43,903 recoveries in the last 24 hours, taking total recoveries to 3,21,81,995 and the active caseload now stands at 4,04,874. The recovery rate is 97.44 percent. The weekly positivity rate of 2.58 percent is below the 3 percent mark for the last 73 days.

In a landmark achievement, India had on Monday administered over 1 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses for the third time in the last 11 days. As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the country's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has now crossed 69.68 crores. 

"More than 92 lakh (92, 00,822) Vaccine Doses have been administered till 7 pm today. The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for the day by late tonight," the health ministry said in a statement.

India'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.

India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.