India's daily caseload further slipped to 14,830 on Tuesday, officials said. According to health ministry data released on Tuesday morning, 14,830 new cases of COVID-19 were reported during the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 43,920,451 in the South Asian country. The new cases reported on Tuesday mark a decrease from the Monday daily caseload of 16,866. With the reporting of fresh cases, the number of active cases currently stands at 147,512 in India. The country also logged 36 new deaths due to COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 526,110 since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the ministry said. With the increase in cases, the daily positivity rate stood at 3.48 percent and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 4.53 percent, the ministry data showed. The ministry said that so far 43,246,829 COVID-19 cases have been cured and discharged from hospitals in the country, including 18,159 new recoveries. According to the health ministry, the cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country has exceeded 2 billion vaccine doses as 2,025,057,717 doses have been administered until Tuesday morning. Read: From Dec, only Covid booster dose will be available in Bangladesh So far over 873 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted across the country, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Tuesday. Out of them 426,102 tests were conducted on Monday. The Indian government said recently that an estimated 40 million eligible people in the country have failed to take a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The government is currently focusing efforts on promoting booster doses as the uptake for the third dose has been low. Last week the Indian government said that given the emergence of COVID-19 sub-variants with variable transmissibility and other public health implications, the health ministry was closely following the COVID-19 trajectory globally and in the country. Local governments in various states have issued advisories urging people to wear face masks and follow COVID-19 protocols at mass gatherings in the wake of an increase in daily infections.