Covid cases rise in India, reports over 45,000 new cases and 460 death in 24 hours

India reported 45,083 new Covid-19 cases and 460 fatalities due to the infection in a day, the union health ministry said in its 8 am health bulletin on Sunday. The surge in daily cases has been driven by a recent spike in Covid-19 cases in Kerala.

According to the health ministry, Kerala now accounts for more than half of all the active Covid-19 cases in the country, followed closely by Maharashtra. Kerala reported 31,265 cases on Saturday alone. The state has continued to register more than 30,000 coronavirus infections for 4 consecutive days.

As a result, India saw an increase of 8,783 cases in the active case count on Sunday. Cumulatively, India’s active cases have climbed to 3,68,558. India’s Covid-19 death toll has climbed to 4,37,830. The count of daily new cases has stayed below 50,000 for 63 consecutive days now, the ministry said.

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Also, 17,61,110 coronavirus tests were conducted in the country on Friday, taking the cumulative number of such examinations done so far to 51,68,87,602. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.57%. It has been below 3% for the last 34 days.

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