Covid-19 updates: India reports 43,393 new cases in last 24 hours

India has reported 43,393 new cases and 911 deaths in last 24 hours on Friday. The country's active caseload is now standing at 4,58,727, constituting 1.49% of total cases. Daily positivity rate continues to be less than 3% for the 18 consecutive day. 

As per the data of Ministry of health, "The recovery rate in India is at 97.2% today. There has been a decline of 8% in average daily new cases in the last week. 80% of the new cases reported from 90 districts. Average daily new cases declined from 3,89,803 cases between 1st-7th May to 42,100 cases between 3rd July - 9th July. We are still dealing with the second wave of Covid-19. We need to continue the display of Covid-19 appropriate behaviour." 

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India has tested 42,70,16,605 samples for Covid-19 until now. 

So far 36,89,91,222 anti-Covid jabs are administered in the country. Among these, 40,23,173 doses were given in the last 24 hours.