India's active Covid cases dips to 28,079; logs 2,424 new infections

India experienced a single day increase of 2,424 new coronavirus infections on Monday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 4,46,14,437. However the number of active cases has decreased to 28,079, the Union Health Ministry data revealed.

As per the data updated at 8 am, the overall death toll has climbed to 5,28,814 with 15 fatalities, which includes 12 deaths reconciled by Kerala.

"The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.75 per cent," the health ministry said.


A decline of 514 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The health ministry stated that the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.65 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.27 percent .

The number of people who have recovered from the disease surged to 4,40,57,544, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.

According to the ministry, 218.99 crore doses of COVID vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive.

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.

India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4, three crore on June 23 in 2021, and four crore on January 25 this year.

Inputs from PTI