new delhi india today recorded 38949 new covid19 cases abd 542 deaths in the last 24 hours said the union health ministry datathe total infection tally is now 31026829 while the death toll reached 412531 according to the data updated at 8 am the active cases have declined to 430422 and comprise 139 per cent of the total infections while the national covid19 recovery rate stands at 9728 per centit said that a decrease of 1619 has been recorded in the number of active cases in a span of 24 hoursthe ministry said 1955910 tests were conducted on thursday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of covid19 in the country to 440023239 while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 199 per centthe positivity rate has been less than three per cent for 25 consecutive days it saidthe weekly positivity rate stands at 214 per cent according to the health ministrythe number of people who have recovered from the disease has increased to 30183876 while the case fatality rate has risen to 133 per cent the data statedthe vaccine doses administered so far has reached 3953 crore under the nationwide inoculation drive against covid19indias covid19 tally had crossed the 20 lakhmark on august 7 30 lakh on august 23 40 lakh on september 5 and 50 lakh on september 16 last yearit went past 60 lakh on september 28 70 lakh on october 11 crossed 80 lakh on october 29 90 lakh on november 20 and surpassed the one croremark on december 19 last yearindia crossed two crore cases on may 4 and three crore cases on june 23