NEW DELHI: India added 2,364 fresh covid cases over the last 24 hours, taking active cases in the country to 15,419, the union health ministry said on Thursday.
States like Delhi (2675), Haryana (1324), Uttar Pradesh (948), Kerala (3555), Karnataka (1815), Maharashtra (1605) recorded the maximum number of active cases.
As many as 2,582 people recovered during the last 24 hours, taking total recoveries to 4,25,89,841. Diagnostic centres have not been reporting too many people seeking covid testing. “Apart from travel related guidelines-based testing and a few clinical cases, we are currently not witnessing much demand for Covid 19 testing.
The kind of positivity rate we are seeing varies from 1% to > 10% as we cater all over India through our vast network," said Anand K, chief executive, SRL Diagnostics.