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New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday (November 7, 2021) stated that India saw 10,853 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours and that the active caseload has now hit the lowest in 260 days.
The Health Ministry further said that the active infections, currently at 1,44,845, now account for less than 1% of the total cases.
The country also recorded 526 coronavirus-related deaths and 12,432 recoveries in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of recoveries registered across India has increased to 3.37 crore and the death toll is at 4,60,791.
India has so far conducted more than 61 crore tests to detect the virus and the daily positivity rate presently stand at 1.18%, while the weekly positivity rate is at 1.28%.
On the other hand, over 108.21 crore vaccine doses have been administered to date under the nationwide vaccination drive. The Ministry informed that more than 15.77 crore balance and unutilized vaccine doses are still available with the States and UTs to be administered.