India reports lowest daily Covid-19 cases in last 50 days

India today reported 1.52 lakh new cases of Covid-19 in a day, the lowest in 50 days, according to the country's health ministry data.

India's active caseload has further declined to 20,26,092, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

With 2,56,92,342 total recoveries across the country so far and 2,38,022 patients having recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases for the 18th consecutive day, the ministry said.

The recovery rate thus increased to 91.60 percent.

The daily positivity rate was pegged at 9.07 percent, less than 10 percent for seven successive days.