India Records Over 13K Cases Of COVID-19 With 23 Fatalities

New Delhi: As many as 13,216 fresh cases of COVID-19 were registered in India on June 18, thereby pushing the tally to 4,32,83,793.

As per the data provided by the health ministry, the active cases have risen to 68,108 as a result of the new cases reported in the country.

It happened to be the first time in 113 days that more than 13,000 cases of Covid-19 has been recorded in India.

The data, which was updated at 8 am, stated that the death toll rose to 5,24,840 with 23 fresh casualties.

The health ministry said that the active cases comprise 0.16 per cent of the total infections and the national COVID-19 recovery rate was clocked at 98.63 per cent.

An increase of 5,045 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The health ministry informed that the daily positivity rate stood at 2.73 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.47 per cent.

The ministry further informed that a total of 4,26,90,845 people have recovered from Covid-19 and the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.21 per cent.

The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide inoculation drive has crossed 196 crore.

Meanwhile, the 23 new deaths include 13 from Kerala, three from Maharashtra, two from Karnataka and one each from Delhi, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

Out of the total 5,24,840 fatalities registered so far in the country, 1,47,883 were from Maharashtra, 69,866 from Kerala, 40,112 from Karnataka, 38,026 from Tamil Nadu, 26,226 from Delhi, 23,526 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,207 happened to be from West Bengal.

The health ministry emphasized that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

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