Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The active cases of the Covid-19 have declined to 3,01,989, the lowest in 186 days as per the Union Health Ministry data which was updated on September 22.
According to the data, India logged 26,964 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,35,31,498 and the death toll climbed to 4,45,768 with 383 fresh fatalities. The active cases comprise 0.90 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.77 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
A reduction of 7,586 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.69 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.08 per cent.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,27,83,741 and the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
