In a decrease of 97,907 in the past 24 hours, India’s active caseload has further declined to 13,03,702.
In the lowest daily tally in over two months, India on Tuesday recorded 86,498 fresh Covid-19 cases, pushing the country’s recovery rate to 94.29 per cent. The country has recorded lowest cases in 66 days, and less than one lakh Covid cases after 63 days.
In a decrease of 97,907 in the past 24 hours, India’s active caseload has further declined to 13,03,702. As over 1.82 lakh patients recovered in the last 24 hours, the total recoveries have climbed to 2,73,41,462.
For the 26th consecutive day, the recoveries have continued to outnumber the daily Covid cases. As the weekly positivity rate is at 5.94 per cent, the daily positivity rate has dropped to 4.62 per cent, below 10% for 15 consecutive days.
As per the Union health ministry, India also saw 2,123 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll in the country to 3,51,309. India has substantially grown its testing capacity, with a total of 18,73,485 samples tested in the past 24 hours.
The maximum number of deaths due to the disease were reported in Tamil Nadu (351), followed by Karnataka with 340 daily deaths.
Tamil Nadu with 19,448 cases, followed by Karnataka with 11,958 cases, Maharashtra with 10,219 cases, Kerala with 9,313 cases and Odisha with 6,118 cases are the top five states to have registered the maximum Covid cases in the past 24.
These five states accounted for almost 65% of new cases, with Tamil Nadu alone responsible for 22.48 per cent of the new cases.
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