India registers 19,673 new cases of COVID-19, 39 deaths

India registered 19,673 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, according to data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.

With this fresh surge in COVID-19 cases, the country’s total cases are now at 4,40,19,811. Here, active cases stand at 1,43,676 which account for 0.33 per cent of the total cases.

The recovery rate in the country currently stands at 98.48 per cent. As many as



19,336 fresh recoveries were logged in the country in the last 24 hours thereby increasing the total recoveries to 4,33,49,778.

The health ministry informed that 39 fatalities were recorded in a day pushing India’s COVID-19 death toll to 5,26,357.

Of the 3,96,424 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, a daily positivity rate of 4.96 per cent was observed. The weekly positivity rate is at 4.88 per cent.