India has been recording at least 20,000 cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) nearly every day in the last week, which have now pushed the country’s infection tally to 33,935,309. On Saturday, India logged 19,740 new Covid-19 cases and 23,070 recoveries, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare. With this, the country's active caseload now stands at 236,643—the lowest in 206 days. The recovery rate is currently at 97.98 per cent, the highest since the beginning of the corona virus pandemic. "On an average, 20,000 Covid-19 cases have been recorded daily. Of these 56 per cent cases were reported from Kerala last week,” Union health ministry’s joint secretary Lav Agarwal said on Thursday. Kerala has currently recorded more than one lakh active cases of Covid-19 and the number of infections in Mizoram crossed the 1 lakh mark with 102,629 infections on Thursday. A four-member expert team sent by the Centre has been camping in Mizoram and were in Champhai district on the Mizoram-Myanmar border on Thursday to conduct an on-the-spot study of the pandemic situation, news agency PTI reported.

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