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India records 86498  new COVID-19 cases in pat 24 hours, lowest in 66 days

| @indiablooms | Jun 08, 2021, at 02:51 pm

New Delhi: India recorded 86,498 new cases in last 24 hours, the lowest figure in 66 days, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.

It is after 63 days that India is recording fresh COVID-19 cases below the 1-lakh mark.

India's past 24 hours, 2123 people died due to the virus.

India's active caseload further declines to 13,03,702.

Active cases decrease by 97,907in the last 24 hours,

2,73,41,462total Recoveries across the country so far.

1,82,282patients recovered during last 24 hours.

Recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 26th consecutive day

Recovery rate increases to 94.29%

Weekly positivity rate currently at 5.94%

Daily positivity rate at 4.62%, less than 10% for 15 consecutive days.

Testing capacity substantially ramped up–36.8cr tests total conducted.

23.61 Cr. vaccine doses administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive.

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