New Delhi, June 15:
India registered 60,471 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, along with 2726 Covid-19 related deaths, the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) said on Tuesday morning. With this, the national tally of coronavirus cases has risen to 29,570,881, including a related death toll of 377,031, Tuesday’s data showed.
This is for the eighth successive day that the country has seen less than 100,000 fresh infections in a day. On June 8, the Union health ministry reported 86,498 new cases from the previous 24 hours, which meant that for the first time since early April, or 66 days, the country’s cumulative positive cases rose by less than 100,000.
The number of recoveries mounted to 28,280,472 with the addition of 117,525 discharges, with the recovery rate further improving to 95.63%. This is the 33rd consecutive day when daily discharges have outnumbered new cases. Active cases continued to decline, and were recorded at 913,378, a fall of 59,780 infections. These comprise 3.08% of the overall caseload.
