India reports slight rise in Covid-19 cases with 3,720 infections
The daily positivity rate presently stands at 2.49 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate is at 3.46 per cent.
The daily positivity rate presently stands at 2.49 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate is at 3.46 per cent.
India recorded 3,325 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, 957 less than the count reported on Monday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
With an alarming positivity rate of nearing 15 per cent covid-19 has already claimed 11 lives including a 15-yearold boy in the state during the last two weeks.
The State clocked 382 freshactive Covid-19 cases at a high7.1 percent test positivity TPR in the last 24 hours,said officials on Monday.
The active caseload stood at 53,720 which is 0.12 per cent of the total cases, the union health ministry said on Saturday.
In a worrying development, however, ninety-six children are among the 628 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Odisha in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 10,18,926. Yesterday the State had logged 580 positive cases.
Six fresh fatalities pushed the state’s coronavirus death toll to 8,098 while the test positivity rate (TPR) of the samples clinically tested in the last 24 hours stood at 1.07%. Of the new patients, 103 are children and adolescents.
With 745 added to the tally, the state’s COVID-19 tally rose to 10,15,083. With six fresh fatalities, the death toll climbed to 8,084, said officials of the State health and family welfare department.
The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state now is 97.32 per cent while the active percentage stands at 2.18 and the positivity rate at 3.44 per cent, the official said.
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