New Delhi (NVI): The active coronavirus caseload in India further dipped to 4.35 per cent of total COVID-19 cases, the Union Health Ministry said.
“Continuing with the trend of the last 7 days, India has reported more daily recoveries than the daily new cases during the past 24 hours,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
With 36,595 new infections and 42,916 recoveries registered in the last 24 hours, the trend of more daily recoveries than the new cases has led to a continuous contraction of India’s active caseload which presently stands at 4,16,082.
The ministry said that, the difference of 6,321 between new recoveries and new cases has led to a net decline of 6,861 cases from the total active caseload in the past 24 hours.
“India still continues to have one of the lowest cases per million population in the world much lower than many other countries of the Western Hemisphere,” it added.
Meanwhile, the recovery rate has also improved to 94.2 per cent today, with the total recovered cases standing at 90,16,289. The gap between recovered cases and active cases is steadily increasing and currently stands at 86,00,207.
About 80.19 per cent of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States and UTs. Maharashtra reported the highest number with 8,066 COVID-19 recoveries, followed by Kerala (5,590) and Delhi with 4,834 new recoveries
Ten States and UTs have also contributed 75.76 per cent of the new cases. Out of these, Kerala reported 5,376 cases and Maharashtra registered 5,182 new cases, while Delhi recorded 3,734 new cases.
Apart from this, 540 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours and 77.78 per cent of them are from ten States and UTs.
In addition, 21.29 per cent of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra with 115 deaths. Delhi also saw a fatality count of 82 while West Bengal reported 49 deaths, the ministry added.
-RJV
