India on Wednesday recorded a slightly higher number of daily Covid-19 cases as compared to the day before with 5,379 fresh infections - taking the total cases tally to 44,472,241. On Tuesday, the country reported 4,417 new cases. The active caseload in the country has declined to 50,594 - accounting for 0.11 percent of the total cases.According to the health ministry data, a total of 7,094 have recovered in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate in the country stands at 98.7 percent.While the daily positivity rate is at 1.67 percent, the weekly positivity rate is at 2.0 percent.Also read: Is Covid-19 finally on its way out