Updated On: 18 February, 2021 12:24 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
For over a month, the country has recorded less than 15,000 new infections daily. Besides, the daily Covid death toll has been treading below the 200-mark for more than a month now.

A health worker takes a nasal swab of a passenger for a Covid-19 coronavirus test upon her arrival at a railway platform in Mumbai. Pic/PTI
Continuing its streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases, India reported 12,881 new infections in the last 24 hours, even as its overall tally mounted to 1,09,50,201, health officials said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said there were 101 more Covid-19 fatalities, taking the overall death toll to 1,56,014.