India recorded 14,313 new coronavirus infections in last 24 hours taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,39,85,920, while the active cases declined to 2,14,900, the lowest in 212 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Wednesday.

The number of deaths climbed to 4,50,963 with 181 fresh deaths, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The active cases comprise 0.63 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.04 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.

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.

India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.

Source: NDTV

BDST: 1316 HRS, OCT 13, 2021
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