India's Covid numbers rise again; 18K new cases, 160 deaths

October 21, 2021 10:46

A sobering moment after the 100-crore vaccination record, is that the number of Covid cases are rising again.

There has been a single-day rise of 18,454 fresh cases today pushing India's COVID-19 tally to 3,41,27,450.

The number of active infections have risen to 1,78,831, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.

The death toll from the pandemic climbed to 4,52,811 with 160 new fatalities, showed the data updated at 8 am.

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 27 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 116 consecutive days now.

The number of active cases has increased to 1,78,831, comprising 0.52 per cent of the total infections -- the lowest since March 2020 -- while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.15 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the Health Ministry said.

An increase of 733 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 case count in a span of 24 hours. Also, 12,47,506 tests were conducted on Wednesday, taking the cumulative number of tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 59,57,42,218.

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