With 121 deaths on Sunday, the toll in the city now stands at 8,391. As many as 6,746 new COVID-19 cases were reported from Delhi in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases in the state to 5,29,863.

The total figure includes 4,81,260 recoveries and 40,212 active cases. With 121 deaths on Sunday, the toll in the city now stands at 8,391. As many as 54,893 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.

The positivity rate currently stands at 12.29 per cent, while the death rate stands at 1.69 per cent.

Meanwhile, India has tested a total of 12,95,91,786 samples, as on date. More than 10L tests (10,83,397) were conducted in the past 24 hours. The cumulative national Positivity Rate stands at 6.95% today, less than the 7% mark. Higher volumes of testing eventually lead to low Positivity rate.

34 States/UTs are performing more than 140 Tests/Day/Million population.20 States/UTs are reporting a cumulative Positivity rate lower than the national average (6.95%). In the last 24 hours, 45,882 persons were found to be infected with COVID. India’s present active caseload of 4,43,794 comprises 4.93% of India’s Total Positive Cases and has been sustained below the 5% mark. Ten States/UTs account for 78.2% of the total active caseload. Maharashtra leads the tally with 18.19% of the share.28 States/UTs have less than 20,000 active cases, as on date.

The country has registered 44,807 new recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the total recovered cases to 84,28,409. The Recovery Rate has improved to 93.60% today. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases is steadily increasing and presently stands at 79,84,615.78.02% of the new recovered cases is contributed by ten States/UTs.With 6,860 persons recovering from COVID, Kerala saw the most number of recoveries followed by Delhi with 6,685 daily recoveries. 81.85% of the 584 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs.