India has crossed a significant milestone in its fight against COVID. With cumulative recovery of over 90 lakh people so far, the recovery rate has further improved to 94.20 per cent. The number of daily recoveries also continue to outnumber the new daily cases, taking the total recovered cases in the country at around 22 times the number of active cases. The daily positive cases have been below the 50 thousand marks for 27 consecutive days. In the last 24 hours, nearly 36 thousand 500 new cases were reported while nearly 43 thousand people recovered successfully in the same time span.
The active caseload of the country witnessed further reduction and has reached below 4.5 per cent. Total active cases in the country yesterday stand at four lakh 16 thousand 82 which comprises merely 4.35 per cent of the total reported cases.
The Health Ministry has informed that nearly 75 percent of the new covid cases are concentrated in 10 states and Union territory of Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala, West Bengal, Haryana and Rajasthan among others. The Health Ministry has said this has also led to a commensurate dip in the fatality rate which stands at 1.45 per cent. It informed that 540 case fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours.
The Health Ministry today said that demonstrating a landmark achievement, India's active cases have fallen below 4.2 lakh. In a tweet this morning, the Ministry said, the recovered cases have crossed 90 lakh. It said, calibrated and effective strategy of the Centre focused on high levels of testing combined with early identification, timely tracing, isolation and hospitalisation for the severe cases have resulted in a manageable number of active cases and continuously rising number of recoveries.
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