India reports 913 new Covid cases, 13 deaths

India continues to witness its downward trajectory of fresh COVID-19 cases with the country reporting 913 new infections in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday.

The daily positivity rate in the country has also dipped to 0.29 percent, while the weekly positivity rate has dropped to 0.22 percent.

With this, the present active caseload of India is 12,597, accounting for 0.03 percent of total cases.

A total of 79.10 crore tests have been conducted so far in India, with 3,14,823 tests held in the last 24 hours, as per ministry data.

As many as 1,316 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tally of recovery from the virus 4,24,95,089. 

A total of 184.70 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the country so far under a nationwide vaccination drive.