The case tally has been pushed to 4,31,19,112 and the virus death toll in the country has risen to 5,24,201.
India’s active caseload currently stands at 18,096 with a dip of 508 such cases.
The country has also registered 3,355 fresh recoveries, taking the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease to 4,25,76,815, Union health ministry data stated. The recovery rate now stands at 98.74%.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.59%, and the weekly positivity rate at 0.66%, a bulletin released by the government on Saturday stated.
As many as 1,91,15,90,370 vaccine doses have been administered in India so far under the nationwide vaccination drive, as per the ministry.
With 4,86,969 tests for Covid detection having been conducted in the last 24 hours, the total number of tests held across the nation so far rose over 84.34 core, as per ICMR data.
