New Delhi (NVI): India registered 26,567 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours for the first time after nearly 5 months, a significant achievement in its fight against COVID-19, the Union Health Ministry said.
This the first time after July when the daily new COVID-19 cases have fallen below 27,000. The new cases were 26,506 last on July 10, 2020.
“India’s steady trend of registering dipping active cases continues with a high number of COVID-19 patients recovering every day and the sustained fall in the mortality rate,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The active total cases have also drastically declined to 3.83 lakh. The total positive cases of the country are 3,83,866 and comprise 3.96 per cent of the total cases, the ministry said.
“39,045 new recoveries were registered during the last 24 hours. It has led to a net decline of 12,863 cases from the total active caseload during the same period,” it added.
Meanwhile, in another achievement, the country’s active caseload has fallen under the 4 per cent mark. “New recoveries outnumbering the daily new cases has also improved the recovery rate to 94.59 per cent today, pushing the total recovered cases to 91,78,946,” the statement said.
As many 76.31 per cent of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States and UTs. Maharashtra has recorded the maximum number of recoveries with 7,345 persons recovering from COVID-19, Kerala registered 4,705 recoveries while Delhi has reported 3,818 new recoveries in the past 24 hours, the ministry said.
It also said, ten States and UTs have contributed 72.50 per cent of the new cases. Out of these, Kerala has reported 3,272 cases in the last 24 hours, followed by Maharashtra with 3,075 cases and West Bengal with 2,214 new cases.
Furthermore, 75.58 per cent of the 385 case fatalities that reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States and UTs. “16.36 per cent of new fatalities reported are from Delhi which reported 63 deaths. West Bengal saw a fatality count of 48 while Maharashtra reported 40 new deaths.”
However, asserting that there is a steady decline in the number of viddaily deaths recorded in the country, the ministry said less than 400 new deaths were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours.
-RJV
