Coronavirus Updates: India reports 3,805 new Covid-19 cases, 22 related deaths

India on Friday recorded 3,805 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall count of 4,30,98,743. 

The country also recorded 22 covid-related fatalities, bringing the total number of deaths to 5,24,024.

According to the Health Ministry, the daily positivity rate stood at 1.07 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was 0.70 per cent.

More than 3,000 people also recovered from the coronavirus, taking the total number of Covid recoveries in the country to 4,25,54,416.

Meanwhile, Delhi recorded 1,656 Covid-19 cases and zero fatality due to the infection on Friday, while the positivity rate stood at 5.39 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.

Meanwhile, Mumbai on Friday reported 117 Covid-19 cases, the fourth day in a row when the addition to the tally was above 100, taking the infection count here to 10,60,434, a civic official said.

As many as 11 students of Kasturba Gandhi Girls Residential School in Jharkhand's Chatra district were tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two days, officials said on Friday.

Eight girls of class 12 and two of class 11 were found to be afflicted with the disease on May 4, while another one tested positive for the virus on Thursday.