New Delhi: For the first time since July, active Covid-19 cases in the country fell below the four lakh mark Monday.
Active cases have been steadily declining in India and test positivity rate has also been below five per cent over the last two weeks.
Daily cases
As many as 32,981 people were infected with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
Active cases
For the first time since July, active Covid-19 cases in India fell below four lakh Monday. The total active cases stood at 3,96,729.
Number of deaths
In the last 24 hours, 391 people died from coronavirus across the country, with the highest number of deaths occurring in Delhi (69). This brings the total reported deaths in the country since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,40,573.
Mortality rate
The case fatality rate (CFR) in Punjab continued to be at 3.1 — the highest in the country. Maharashtra and Sikkim also have high CFRs of 2.58 and 2.18, respectively.
Kerala, despite having high number of active cases, has a low CFR of 0.37. India’s overall case fatality rate is 1.45.
Daily tests
As many as 8,01,081 Covid-19 tests were conducted across 1,188 government and 1,019 private laboratories in the last 24 hours.
The total number of tests conducted in India, since the beginning of the pandemic, stands at 14,77,87,656.
Positivity rate
As the number of tests conducted over the last 24 hours dipped, the test positivity rate (TPR) increased to 4.1 per cent Monday.
The overall TPR for India, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, has further reduced to 6.5 per cent.
Recovered cases
So far, 91,39,901 people in India have recovered from Covid-19. In the last 24 hours, 39,109 Covid-19 patients were discharged.
India has the highest number of Covid-19 recoveries in the world.
Total cases
India has recorded 96,77,203 Covid-19 cases in total since the beginning of the pandemic, which is the second-highest in the world.
States with the highest active cases
In Maharashtra, as many as 4,757 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 18,52,266, since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of these, 81,162 cases are active, while 47,734 people have died. The state saw 40 Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Kerala reported the highest number of new cases in a single day Monday, among states with the most number of active cases. In the last 24 hours, 4,777 people tested positive for the disease in the state.
The total number of cases in the state is now 6,36,392, of which 61,063 cases are active. As many 2,418 people have died in state so far from Covid-19, of which 28 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
Karnataka became the state with the third highest number of active cases, with 25,400 active cases recorded Monday.
In Delhi, as many as 69 people have died from the infection in the last 24 hours — which is the highest among all Indian states. This takes the Covid-19 death toll in Delhi to 9,643.
There has, however, been a dip in the number of new cases detected in the state, with 2,706 people testing positive in the last 24 hours.
The total number of cases recorded in Delhi since the beginning of the pandemic is 5,92,250. Of these, 24,693 cases are active.
In West Bengal, 3,143 people tested positive for Covid-19 and 46 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
So far, 5,02,840 people in the state have tested positive for the disease since the beginning of the pandemic. Of these, 23,894 cases are active, while 8,723 people have died.