According to a daily bulletin released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday the total number of active cases in the country has declined to 51,314 from the earlier 53,852.
Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra said in a tweet, "It hurts me to see our athletes on the streets demanding justice. They have worked hard to represent our great nation and make us proud."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a joke about how a professor, reading the suicide note left by his daughter, realised how she got her spellings wrong despite his efforts to get her to spell correctly.
"Twitter continues to take action on content that violates our Rules and protects users' rights in response to government legal requests," the blog read.
According to the Union Health Ministry data updated the daily positivity rate has been recorded at 9.16 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was pegged at 5.41 per cent.