India continues to report a sustained slide in the daily new COVID-19 cases with 67,208 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. In a country of over 1.3 billion people, less than 100,000 daily new cases have been reported for 10 continuous days now.

"This is a result of sustained and collaborative efforts by the Centre and the States/UTs," a government statement said.

India has also been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload. The country’s active caseload on Thursday stands at 8,26,740. This is lowest decline in active cases after 71 days.

A net decline of 38,692is witnessed in the last 24 hours and active cases are now only 2.78% of the country's total positive cases.

As more people are getting recovered from COVID-19 infection, India’s daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for 35 consecutive days now. 1,03,570 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours, the Centre informed on Thursday. (SAM)