New Delhi: India on Monday continued its streak of low single-day coronavirus cases with 13,203 fresh infections reported in the last 24 hours which pushed the overall tally to 1,06,67,736, health officials said.
For the past 18 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 daily new infections. Also, the death toll remained below 300-mark for the past 28 days.
On January 19, India had reported 10,064 new coronavirus infections, the lowest single-day spike in seven months. The country had recorded over 10,000 cases on June 6 last year.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday said that with 131 fresh deaths, the overall death toll in India stood at 1,53,470.
As per the Ministry’s data, 1,03,30,084 people have recovered so far and currently, there are 1,84,182 active cases.
The recovery rate stands at 96.83 per cent, while the fatality rate at 1.44 per cent.
About 80 per cent of the daily new cases are reported from eight states — Kerala,…
