The daily positivity rate was recorded at 3.94 percent and the weekly positivity rate at 2.90 percent, the ministry said.
India reported no less than 13,313 new COVID-19 cases as of now, taking the total number of cases to 4,33,31,645. As per Union health ministry data, the number of active cases increased to 81,687 in the country.
India additionally report 13 new Covid related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 5,24,903.
The active cases contain 0.19 percent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.60 per cent, the health ministry said.
An increase of 2,374 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 3.94 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 2.90 percent, the ministry said.
The first person who died was a 72-year-old man with an intercranial neoplasm (brain tumour), who incidentally tested Covid-positive on Tuesday.
The other person who died on Wednesday was also elderly, and with several co-morbidities, said health department sources. A few days ago, too, a 90-year-old, who was admitted to a government hospital with various co-morbidities, later tested positive and died.
Bengal reported two Covid cases on Wednesday, the numerous fatalities throughout in the course of a single day occurring after more than one and-a-half months, but following a trend: almost all the deaths observed over the previous few weeks were that of elderly, co-morbid patients.
Italy recorded more than 62,700 cases on Tuesday, almost multiplying the number from the earlier week. Germany, meanwhile, reported more than 122,000 cases on Tuesday.
France is facing a new wave of Covid-19 infections fueled by new variants of the disease, French vaccination chief Alain Fischer said on Wednesday, as daily new cases reached an almost two-month peak the day before at more than 95,000.