New Delhi: 18 Jan 21 India added 13,788 new cases in the last 24 hours – the second time the infections fell below 14,000 this month – to take the country’s COVID-19 caseload to 1,05,71,773, the Health Ministry data this morning showed. The number of fresh infections is almost nine per cent higher than Sunday, when the country registered 15,144 cases. The daily COVID-19 infections were 12,548 on January 12.In the 24-hour period, India reported 145 deaths linked to the virus — the lowest in around eight months– taking the total number of fatalities to 1,52,419.The number of people who have recovered from the disease surged to 1,02,11,342 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate of 96.59 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent. The daily new cases have been below 20,000 for the past 11 days.
