New Delhi (NVI): India’s total active coronavirus cases fallen below the 4-lakh mark and stands at 3,96,729 today, the lowest in 140 days, Union Health Ministry said.
“India’s present active coronavirus caseload consists of just 4.1 per cent of India’s total positive cases. The total active cases were 3,90,459 on July 20,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The country has also reported more daily recoveries than the daily new cases during the past 24 hours, continuing with the trend from the past 10 days.
“With 32,981 new cases and 39,109 new recoveries registered in the last 24 hours. The difference between new recoveries and cases has led to a net decline of 6,519 cases from the total active cases during the same period,” the statement read.
The ministry also informed that, the new cases per million population in India recorded in the past seven days are amongst the lowest in the world. The number of cases per million population has also been historically low for India. The country’s cases per million is 6,988 against the world average of 8,438.
Meanwhile, the difference in new recoveries outnumbering new cases has also improved the recovery rate to 94.45 per cent, pushing the total recovered cases to 91,39,901.
With this, the gap between recovered cases and active cases has crossed 87-lakh mark standing at 87,43,172 in the country.
As many as 81.20 per cent of the new recovered cases are from 10 States and UTs, the ministry said, adding that, “Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of recoveries with 7,486 new recovered cases, followed by Kerala with 5,217 recoveries and Delhi registered 4,622 new recoveries.”
About 76.20 per cent of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs. Out of these, Kerala reported the highest daily new cases at 4,777, followed by Maharashtra with 4,757 new cases. West Bengal recorded 3,143 new cases.
The ministry further said, in the past 24 hours, 391 case fatalities have been reported in the country.
Ten States and UTs account for 75.07 per cent of new deaths. Delhi saw the maximum fatalities of 69 and West Bengal and Maharashtra follow with 46 and 40 daily deaths, respectively.
Notably, the daily registered deaths per million population during the past week when compared globally demonstrate that India continues to have one of the lowest at 3 death/ million population, the statement added.
-RJV
