India’s daily Covid cases rise again, 214 deaths recorded in single day

18 April 2022, 12:07 pm

Raising fear of another wave, India logged 2,183 new coronavirus infections on Monday against 1,150 cases that was recorded yesterday.

The death toll climbed to 5,21,965 with 214 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

Today’s number took the total tally of Covid cases to 4,30,44,280, while the active cases declined to 11,542, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

A decrease of 16 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.83 per cent and the weekly positivity rate as 0.32 per cent, according to the ministry.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,25,10,773, while the case fatality rate was recorded as 1.21 per cent.

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