Daily rise in new coronavirus infections below 20,000 for 49 straight days

New Delhi: India logged 10,549 new coronavirus infections taking the country’s total tally of Covid cases to 3,45,55,431, while the active cases rose to 1,10,133, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

The death toll climbed to 4,67,468 with 488 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 49 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 152 consecutive days now.

The active cases comprise 0.32 per cent of the total infections while the national Covid recovery rate was recorded at 98.33 per cent, the health ministry said.

An increase of 193 cases has been recorded in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours.