India’s fight against Covid19 has been long and eventful. The country has achieved several significant milestones in its fight against COVID with a sustained, pro-active and calibrated strategy. In the last 24 hours, just 12,584 daily new cases were added to the national tally after nearly seven months, 167 daily deaths and 18,385 recoveries were recorded. The Recovery Rate has improved to 96.49%.

 The gap between active cases and recoveries keeps widening and presently stands at 98,94,736. India’s cumulative recoveries have crossed 1.01 cr (10,111,294). There is a considerable decline in mortality rate as more number of people are responding to medication and are recovering quickly. The active caseload of the country has shrunk considerably and presently stands at 2,16,558. At present India’s active caseload is just 2.07% of total Positive Cases. 

80.50% of the new recovered cases in the past 24 hours are from 10 States/UTs. The state with highest number of recoveries is Maharashtra with 4,286 single day recoveries followed by Kerala with 3,922 new recoveries and Chhattisgarh with 1,255 recoveries.

However new confirmed cases have been reported in the last 24 hours in the country and 70.08% of these new cases are concentrated in seven States/UT. Kerala is leading the number of new active cases with 3,110 cases followed by Maharashtra with 2,438 and Chhattisgarh with 853 new cases.

India’s case Fatality Rate has reduced significantly over months. 62.28% case fatalities have been reported in 5 States and UTs in the past 24 hours and 167 deaths have been registered in the past 24 hours. Maharashtra tops the chart with 40 new deaths followed by Kerala and West Bengal with 20 and 16 deaths, respectively.