"covid-19-positivity-rate"

The lockdown-like restrictions in the state were imposed in April this year when the second wave of the pandemic intensified.

The coastal state reported a total of 12 cases of mucormycosis, and since then there has been no fresh case of the black fungus infection.

India registered 2,95,955 recoveries in a single day as against 2,08,921 new cases.

Twenty-four people were cured of the disease during the period, taking the total number of recoveries in the archipelago to 6,441.

Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 56,578.

India registered a record single-day spike of 1,26,789 new coronavirus infections pushing the nationwide COVID-19 tally of cases to 1,29,28,574.

The total number of tests for the detection of coronavirus infection has crossed 9.5 crore so far, according to the ministry.