New Delhi, Apr 14, 2023, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT/ TT

The country has registered over 11,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said.

At the same time, over 6,000 people have recovered from COVID during the same period.

The death toll, meanwhile, climbed to 5,31,064 with 29 deaths.

While three deaths each were reported from Delhi and Rajasthan, two each were from Chhattisgarh and Punjab and one each from Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh ,Maharastra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh besides nine reconciled by Kerala, an official data stated.

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 5.01 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was pegged at 4.29 per cent. The Covid case tally was recorded at 4.47 crore (4,47,97,269).

The active cases now comprise 0.11 per cent of the total infections and the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.70 per cent, the ministry said.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,42,16,586 and the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.  According to the ministry's website, there are over 49,000 active COVID cases in the country and the recovery rate currently stands at 98.70 per cent.

It said over 220 crore vaccine doses have been administered across the country so far.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday that hospitalisation rate due to COVID-19 remains low in the national capital despite a recent spurt in cases.

Delhi recorded 1,527 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 27.77 on Thursday, according to data shared by the city government's Health department. Only 231 of the 7,945 beds in the city's dedicated Covid hospitals are occupied, it said.