New Delhi, Jan 29 : With 18,855 new Covid-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India continued its streak of low single-day cases, even as the overall tally mounted to 1,07,20,048, health officials said on Friday.
For the past 22 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 daily new infections. Also, the death toll remained below the 300-mark for the past 32 days.
On January 19, India had reported 10,064 new cases, the lowest so far this year. Last year, the lowest was recorded on June 3 with 9,633 cases.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday said there were 163 fresh deaths taking the overall toll to 1,54,010.
As per the Ministry’s data, 1,03,94,352 people have so far been discharged, and currently, there are 1,71,686 active cases.
The recovery rate stands at 96.96 per cent, while the fatality rate is 1.62 per cent.
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