At 34,703, India logs lowest Covid case rise in 111 days; recovery rate rises to 97.17 per cent

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India reported 34,703 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest in 111 days, informed the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday.

With this, India's active caseload of COVID cases has declined to 4,64,357, which is the lowest in 101 days. The active cases constitute 1.52 percent of the total cases.

Total recoveries touched 2,97,52,294, including 51,864 patients who recovered during the last 24 hours. As per the ministry, the daily recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases for the 54th consecutive day. With this, the recovery rate has increased to 97.17 per cent.

Also, the weekly positivity rate remained below 5 percent and is currently at 2.40 percent. Further, the daily positivity rate is at 2.11 percent, less than 3 percent for 15 consecutive days.

Testing capacity also has substantially been ramped up and 42.14 crore total tests have been conducted so far.

India commenced its COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16 this year. To date, 35.75 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under nationwide vaccination drive.

As per the Indian Council of Medical Research, cumulative total samples tested up to July 5 are 42,14,24,881 including 16,47,424 samples tested yesterday.

Name of State / UT	Active Cases*		Cured/Discharged/Migrated*		Deaths**
Name of State / UT	Total	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	15	6	7339	6	128
2	Andhra Pradesh	33964	1361	1858189	3435	12870	26
3	Arunachal Pradesh	3118	157	34234	267	179	2
4	Assam	23590	88	491561	2521	4683	31
5	Bihar	1305	131	711692	202	9606	5
6	Chandigarh	116	27	60815	38	809	1
7	Chhattisgarh	5220	125	977360	443	13457	1
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	35	3	10530	3	4
9	Delhi	912	80	1408699	132	24997	2
10	Goa	1934	153	162557	281	3075	2
11	Gujarat	2333	134	811491	194	10071	2
12	Haryana	1113	73	758348	117	9496	10
13	Himachal Pradesh	1357	8	197959	165	3484	1
14	Jammu and Kashmir	3774	193	309133	461	4343	6
15	Jharkhand	609	49	340257	93	5117	2
16	Karnataka	42019	2850	2779038	5631	35434	67
17	Kerala	101097	3411	2866806	11346	13818	102
18	Ladakh	216	10	19709	19	204
19	Lakshadweep	278	4	9609	32	49
20	Madhya Pradesh	466	13	780534	39	9015	6
21	Maharashtra	120061	6393	5861720	13027	123136	106
22	Manipur	5974	185	65540	609	1204	8
23	Meghalaya	4354	80	46676	448	871	9
24	Mizoram	3730	149	18026	365	98	3
25	Nagaland	1192	42	23868	82	499
26	Odisha	26347	575	894104	3326	4248	52
27	Puducherry	1871	135	114454	262	1762	1
28	Punjab	2118	206	578310	328	16122	12
29	Rajasthan	1092	88	942756	140	8941	3
30	Sikkim	1869	232	19048	326	309	1
31	Tamil Nadu	34926	368	2432017	4029	33059	54
32	Telangana	11704	260	612096	1061	3698	7
33	Tripura	3962	186	63492	283	697	5
34	Uttarakhand	1555	194	331903	261	7335	2
35	Uttar Pradesh	2181	83	1681912	195	22646	6
36	West Bengal	17950	830	1470512	1697	17817	18
Total#		464357	17714	29752294	51864	403281	553

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday attended a meeting of the G20 High-Level Independent Panel (HLIP) and shared India's preparedness and response to COVID-19 while highlighting the slew of measures undertaken to support the economy during the pandemic.

The meeting, held virtually, was also attended by Singapore Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, former US treasury secretary Lawrence H Summers and World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance ministry tweeted.

The meeting discussed the panel's work which will be presented during the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting to be held later this month.