India logged 18,346 new Coronavirus infections, the lowest in 209 days, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,38,53,048, while the active cases declined to 2,52,902, the lowest in 201 days, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 4,49,260 with 263 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. The daily rise in new cases have remained below 30,000 for 11 straight days.

The active cases comprise 0.75 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.93 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.61 per cent, and the weekly positivity rate was 1.66 per cent.