The active cases account for 0.27 per cent of overall infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.36 per cent, the greatest since March 2020, according to the ministry.
According to the expert, South Africa, where the virus was initially discovered, has yet to register a single case of hospitalisation.
On Sunday, India experienced a single-day increase of 2,796 fatalities when Bihar conducted a reconciliation exercise of its Covid data, bringing its death toll to 4,73,326, with 8,895 new infections reported.
Indiaās scheduled South Africa tour this month is in jeopardy following the outbreak of the new COVID variant. Meanwhile, Indian skipper Virat Kohli has asserted that the team is discussing the BCCI over the same.
India will be touring South Africa from December 17. However, after the emergence of the new COVID variant 'Omicron' in the southern hemisphere of the continent, the tour is in jeopardy.
According to the ministry, the active cases account for 0.38 per cent of overall infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.27 per cent, the greatest since March 2020.
In the previous 24 hours, India had 555 coronavirus-related fatalities and 12,403 recoveries. So far, 4,63,245 people have died as a result of the virus, while 3,38,26,483 have recovered.
According to the ministry, active cases account for 0.42 per cent of total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.24 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
For the past 28 days, the daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been fewer than 20,000, and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for the past 131 days.
Currently, active cases account for less than 1% of all cases, at 0.44 %, the lowest since March 2020.
