India reports 46,148 new COVID-19 cases, 979 fresh fatalities

New Delhi, June 28: Maintaining the downward trend, India added 46,148 new COVID-19 infections. 979 deaths in the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed. Less than 1 lakh Daily New Cases have been reported for 20 continuous days now.

The country's total COVID-19 case load now stands at 3,02,79,331, while total fatalities are at 3,96,730, the data showed.

Daily recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases for the 46th consecutive day. A total of 58,578 patients recovered in the last 24 hours.

India has also been witnessing a continuous fall in its active caseload. The country's Active Caseload today stands at 5,86,403 today.

A net decline of 9,162 is witnessed in the last 24 hours and active cases are now only 1.94% of the country's total Positive Cases.

With 10,905 cases, Kerala is the top contributor to country's total case load, followed by Maharashtra with 9,974 cases, Tamil Nadu with 5,127 cases, Andhra Pradesh with 4,250 cases and Karnataka with 3,604 cases.

Out od 73.37 per cent of the total load case from these five states, Kerala alone responsible for 23.63 per cent of the new cases.

The country also set a new record as it overtook the United States in the number of vaccine doses administered so far.

As of now, India has so far vaccinated 32,36,63,297 people, the US has given 33,33,27,328 doses.

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 last year, 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 last year.

The tally crossed the 2-crore mark on May 4.

India's COVID-19 caseload in past 7 days: