Maharashtra reconciles COVID data, India records 3,998 fresh fatalities

Cumulative vaccine doses administered so far has reached 41.54 crore

ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ITDC NEWS R India recorded a single day rise of 3,998 coronavirus fatalities as Maharashtra carried out its 14th COVID-19 data reconciliation exercise, pushing the country's death toll to 4,18,480, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday.

The country recorded 42,015 new cases taking the total tally to 3,12,16,337.

The ministry said Maharashtra has carried out reconciliation exercise of COVID-19 data following which the state's positive case tally has increased by 2,479 while the death tally has increased by 3,509.

The active cases in the country have increased to 4,07,170 and comprise 1.30 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.36 per cent,the data updated at 8 am showed.

An increase of 1,040 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

As many as 18,52,140 tests were conducted on Tuesday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 44,91,93,273, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.27 per cent.