India logs 17,092 new COVID-19 cases, 29 more deaths

India logged 17,092 new coronaviruses, raising the tally to 4,34, 86,326, while the active cases have increased to 1,09, 568, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

The death toll has increased to 5,25, 168 with 29 new deaths, according to data updated by the ministry at 8 am.

The active cases comprise 0.25 per cent of the total infections.

The health ministry said the national COVID 19 recovery rate was 98.54 per cent.

An increase of 2,379 cases was recorded in the active COVID 19 case count in a span of 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate was 4.14 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was 3.56 per cent, according to the ministry.

The number of people who have recovered from the disease went up to 4,28, 51,590. The case fatality rate was 1.21 per cent.

197.84 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country under the nationwide inoculation drive, according to the ministry.

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, 2020. The country crossed the milestone of two crore cases on May 4, 2021, three crore cases on June 23 and four crore cases on January 25 this year.

The data stated that there were 29 new deaths, 15 from Kerala, four from Maharashtra, three from Delhi, two from Punjab and one from Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka and Rajasthan.