NEW DELHI:  India's coronavirus tally has climbed to 4,39,38,764, with 18,313 fresh cases reported in a day,  while the count of active cases of the infection has fallen to 1,45,026, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

The death toll due to the viral disease has scaled up to 5,26,110 with 57 more deaths, according to the Health Ministry's data updated at 8 am.

The active cases account for 0.34 percent of the total caseload, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was climbed at 98.47 percent, the Health Ministry said.

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 4.31 percent and the weekly positivity rate at 4.57 percent, as per the data. A decline of 2,486 cases was recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours, it added.  A total of 87.36 crore tests have thus far been conducted to detect the viral infection in the country, including 4,25,337 in the last 24 hours.

The number of people who have recovered from the disease has gone up to 4,32,67,571, while the case fatality rate was documented at 1.2 percent, the data showed. According to the Health Ministry, 202.79 crore vaccine doses have thus far been administered under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive.

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