India's daily COVID-19 cases decline further, 152734 recorded in past 24 hours 

The death toll due to the disease now stands at 329100 with additional 3128 deaths recorded due to the virus.

With this, the country has recorded its lowest daily infections since April 9.

So far, 25692342 people have been released from hospitals after treatment.

There are 2026092  active cases in the country at present.

India is one of the worst COVID-19 hit nations in the world.

During the second wave of the pandemic India witnessed worrying pictures when people struggled to get hospital beds and oxygen.  

India crematoriums and burial grounds were overwhelmed as the country registered a record increase in COVID-19 deaths in this phase as compared to the first phase.

According to the Ministry, India's Covid recovery rate increased to 91.60 per cent on Monday. The weekly positivity rate is currently at 9.04 per cent and the daily positivity rate at 9.07 per cent, less than 10 per cent for seven consecutive days.

The six most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (5,731,815), Karnataka (2,587,827), Kerala (2,514,279), Tamil Nadu (2,068,580), Uttar Pradesh (1,690,060), and Andhra Pradesh (1,685,142).

Meanwhile, amid reports of shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, 10,18,076 people were vaccinated, taking the total figure of inoculation to 21,31,54,129.

Globally, United States remains the worst-hit country with 34,022,118, followed by India, Brazil, France, and Turkey. However, in the past seven days, India has added the highest number of fresh cases at 1,364,626, followed by Brazil (424,161) and Argentina (217,580).