India reports 116 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, tally reaches 4,170

With this, the total tally of active Covid-19 cases has reached 4,170, which is 0.01 percent of the total active cases in the country.

Three deaths have been reported in the state of Karnataka in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 5,33,337. The case fatality rate stands at 1.18%.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has increased to 4,44,72,153, and the national recovery rate stands at 98.81%, according to the health ministry.

Meanwhile, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said the national capital is seeing three to four Covid-19 cases on average every day and asserted that the city is well equipped to fight the virus resurgence.

As per officials, on Tuesday, the Delhi government reported that Covid-19 positive samples have been dispatched to laboratories for genome sequencing.