{"id":1133,"date":"2025-05-08T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/covid-19-update-india-logs-2503-new-cases-in-24-hours-the-lowest-in-680-days\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:24:04","slug":"covid-19-update-india-logs-2503-new-cases-in-24-hours-the-lowest-in-680-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/covid-19-update-india-logs-2503-new-cases-in-24-hours-the-lowest-in-680-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 update: India logs 2,503 new cases in 24 hours, the lowest in 680 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>             <strong> The active caseload stands at 36,168 and the daily positivity rate currently is 0.47%<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>India continued to witness a steep drop in the number of Covid-19 cases as the country reported 2,503 new infections in the last 24 hours, the lowest in 680 days, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>  This has taken the total number of Covid-19 cases reported in India to 42.99 million.<\/p>\n<p>  Registering a sharp decline in Covid-19 deaths, India on Monday recorded 27 fresh fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 515,877.<\/p>\n<p>  With this, the active caseload in the country stands at 36,168 and the daily positivity rate in the country currently is 0.47%, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed.<\/p>\n<p>  Additionally, India&#8217;s current active caseload at 36,168 is lowest in 675 days, informed the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>  The ministry stressed that more than 70% of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.<\/p>\n<p>  The active cases comprise 0.08% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate further improved to 98.72%, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>  As many as 77.90 crore total tests have been conducted so far and 5,32,232 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>  A reduction of 1,901 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,24,41,449 and the case fatality rate was recorded as 1.20%. <\/p>\n<p>  The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive have exceeded 180.19 crores, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The active caseload stands at 36,168 and the daily positivity rate currently is 0.47% India continued to witness a steep drop in the number of Covid-19 cases as the country reported 2,503 new infections in the last 24 hours, the lowest in 680 days, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday. &#8230; <a title=\"Covid-19 update: India logs 2,503 new cases in 24 hours, the lowest in 680 days\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/covid-19-update-india-logs-2503-new-cases-in-24-hours-the-lowest-in-680-days\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Covid-19 update: India logs 2,503 new cases in 24 hours, the lowest in 680 days\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}