New Delhi: India added 6,594 fresh infections in the past 24 hours, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,32,36,695, The recovery rate at 98.67 per cent accounted for 4,035 recuperations in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 4,26,61,370. The daily positivity rate stood at 2.05 per cent.
The number of active cases stood at 50,548 accounting for 0.12 per cent of the total number of cases. The active cases reported an increase of 2,553 cases in the last 24 hours. However, the mortality rate stood at 1.21 per cent recorded 6 fatalities taking the cumulative death toll to 5,24,777.
Meanwhile, the worst-hit state Maharashtra has seen a whopping rise of 241 per cent from 5,127 cases on June 3 to 17,480 cases on June 13, in a span of 10 days, showed the state health bulletin data on Monday.
Maharashtra also reported one Covid death while the case fatality rate is at 1.86 per cent.
With the administration of 14.65 lakh vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 195.35 crores according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.