New Delhi, June 16:
India on Wednesday reported 62,224 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 2,542 related fatalities, taking the caseload and death toll to 29,633,105 and 379,573 respectively, according to the Union health ministry. This is the ninth consecutive day that the daily cases remained below the 100,000-mark. On Tuesday, 60,471 people had tested positive for the viral disease.
More than 107,600 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours which took the total recoveries in the country to 28,388,100, the health ministry update at 8am showed. The active cases, meanwhile, declined to 865,432 and now constitute 3.09 per cent of the caseload.
A total of 383,306,971 samples have been tested for the Covid-19 disease till now of which 1,930,987 were tested in the last 24 hours, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Wednesday.
Daily infections in India have been ebbing since May as a result of lockdown or lockdown-like restrictions imposed by states and Union Territories (UTs). And due to this declining trend, several states including Delhi, have begun their unlocking process with a view to revive their economies.
