Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported 22 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, raising its tally to 4,54,420, officials said.
Eighteen cases were reported from Jammu and four cases from the Kashmir Valley, they said.
Currently there are 126 active COVID-19 cases in the union territory, while the number of recoveries has reached 4,49,542, the officials said.
The COVID-19 death toll in the union territory stands at 4,752 as no fresh fatality was reported in the past 24 hours.
India reports 12,213 new COVID-19 cases, 11 deaths
The single day rise in new coronavirus infections was recorded over 12,000 after 111 days, registering a 38.4 percent jump in daily cases while the active cases have increased to 58,215, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Thursday.
A total 12,213 cases were reported in a span of 24 hours, taking India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,32,57,730 while the death toll has climbed to 5,24,803 with 11 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.13 percent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.65 percent, the health ministry said.
An increase of 4,578 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.35 percent while the weekly positivity rate was at 2.38 percent, according to the health ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,26,74,712 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.21 percent.
The 11 new fatalities include 3 from Kerala, 2 from Maharashtra, 1 each from Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
