New Delhi: For the first time in over eight months, the number of daily deaths in India fell below 200 Monday. The overall mortality rate in India also fell to 1.44 in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the number of new cases detected in the last 24 hours fell to the lowest in over six months.
Daily cases
In the last 24 hours, India recorded 16,311 new cases of Covid-19 — the lowest since 23 June. More than 60 per cent of these cases are being reported from the top five states with the highest number of active Covid-19 infections.
Active cases
The number of active cases in India declined to 2,22,526 Monday. Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh are the states with the highest number of active cases.
Number of deaths
In the last 24 hours, 161 people with Covid-19 died in the country. This is the first time since April that the number of daily deaths have fallen below 200. It brought the total coronavirus death toll in India to 1,51,160, since the beginning of the pandemic.
Mortality rate
India’s overall case fatality rate (CFR) has now reduced to 1.44. Punjab’s CFR still continues to be the highest in the country, at 3.22. Meanwhile, Maharashtra’s CFR reduced to 2.54 and Sikkim’s fatality rate now stands at 2.15.
Daily tests
In the last 24 hours, the number of Covid-19 tests conducted across India dropped to 6,59,209. The total number of tests conducted across the country, since the beginning of the pandemic, is now 18,17,55,831.
Positivity rate
With the number of tests falling to under seven lakh, the test positivity rate increased to 2.4 per cent in the last 24 hours. The overall test positivity, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, reduced to 5.7 per cent.
Recovered cases
As many as 16,959 Covid-19 patients recovered across India in the last 24 hours. This brought the total number of recoveries, since the beginning of the pandemic in India, to 1,00,92,909.
Total cases
As many as 1,04,66,595 cases of Covid 19 have been detected in India since the beginning of the pandemic. The largest number of cases so far have been reported from Maharashtra, followed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
States with the highest active cases
Kerala continues to have the highest number of active cases in India. However, in the last 24 hours, the number of active cases reduced to 64,379. The state reported 4,545 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours — bringing the total number of cases detected in Kerala so far to 8,11,148.
The state reported 23 deaths in the last 24 hours, which brought the total death toll to 3,302.
In Maharashtra, the active case count fell to 55,351. However, as many as 3,558 new cases of Covid-19 were reported from the state in the last 24 hours, which brought the total number of cases detected from the state to 19,69,114.
Maharashtra continues to report the highest number of daily deaths in the country. In the last 24 hours, 34 people with Covid-19 died in the state, which took the death toll to 50,061.
Uttar Pradesh saw active cases reduce to 11,134, with 275 people testing positive from the state in the last 24 hours. So far, 8,495 people have died in the state, with 14 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,93,171 people in the state have tested positive for Covid-19.
In Karnataka, active cases fell to 9,668, with 792 new cases of Covid-19 detected in the last 24 hours. Just two deaths were reported in the state in the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll in the state to 12,140. A total of 9,27,559 cases of infection have been detected from the state since in the beginning of the pandemic — the second-highest after Maharashtra.
Chhattisgarh reported 661 new Covid-19 cases and six deaths in the last 24 hours. Active cases in the state reduced to 8,967, while the death toll now stands at 3,490.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 2,89,231 people have been infected in the state.