New Delhi: India’s test positivity rate fell to 4.5 per cent Tuesday — lowest since June — and the country also saw a significant dip in fresh Covid cases.
Over the last 24 hours, 46,790 people have tested positive for the disease. This is the lowest number of daily Covid-19 cases reported since 27 July.
Active cases
The active cases have been declining for about a month, taking the count to below 7.5 lakh. As of Tuesday, the active Covid-19 cases in India fell to 7,48,538.
Number of deaths
A day after India reported 579 deaths due to Covid-19 — the lowest since 18 July — there was a slight increase in the number of casualties to 587 Tuesday.
This brought the total Covid-19 toll in India to 1,15,197.
Mortality rate
Punjab still remains the state with the highest case fatality rate (CFR) in the country. The CFR metric increased to 3.14 from about 3.05 in two weeks in the state.
Maharashtra and Gujarat are the two other states that have been consistently reporting high CFRs of 2.63 and 2.26 respectively.
Kerala was at the other end of the scale with a low CFR of 0.34, despite reporting the third highest burden of active cases in the country.
The overall CFR for India is now about 1.52.
Daily tests
Over the last 24 hours, India has conducted 10,32,795 Covid-19 tests, bringing the total number of tests in the country to 9,61,16,771.
Positivity rate
Tuesday saw a marked decline in India’s positivity rate to 4.5 per cent, which is the lowest since ThePrint started publishing its daily Covid-19 tracker, in June.
The overall total positivity rate, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, is 7.9 per cent.
Recovered cases
As many as 67,33,328 people have recovered from Covid-19 in India over the course of the pandemic, making it the country with the highest number of recoveries in the world. Over the last 24 hours, 69,720 people have recovered from the infection, bringing the recovery rate to 88.63 per cent — a slight increase from 88.26 per cent Monday.
Total cases
As many as 46,790 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. This is the lowest number of new cases reported since 27 July, when 46,484 people had tested positive for the disease in a day.
The total number of confirmed cases in India now stands at 75,97,063 — second highest in the world.
High-burden states
Maharashtra, the state with the highest number of Covid-19 infections, saw 5,984 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. This brought the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 16,01,365. Of these, 1,74,246 are active cases.
In the last 24 hours, 125 people have died from Covid-19, the highest number so far in Maharashtra. The state’s death toll now stands at 42,240 — accounting for more than a third (36 per cent) of the total deaths in the country.
In Karnataka, 5,018 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections reported from the state to 7,70,604. Of these, 1,06,233 are active cases.
As many 64 deaths were reported from the state in the last 24 hours, bringing the state’s toll to 10,542.
Tamil Nadu has 6,90,936 confirmed coronavirus patients so far and of these, 38,093 are active cases.
In the last 24 hours, 3,536 people have tested positive in the state while 49 have succumbed to the infection.
In Andhra Pradesh, 2,918 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours. The state has 35,065 active Covid-19 cases. A total of 7,86,050 people have tested positive for the disease, of which 6,453 have died. In the last 24 hours, 24 deaths have been reported.
Uttar Pradesh has 4,56,865 Covid-19 patients, including 1,719 people who tested positive for the disease Tuesday. As many as 27 people have died from the viral disease in the last 24 hours.
The number of active cases in the state stands at 31,495, while the total death toll due to Covid-19 is 6,685.
Tests and positive cases
Over the last 24 hours, Maharashtra saw a sharp dip in its test positivity rate — to 8.6 per cent Tuesday from 19.7 per cent Monday.
A test positivity rate above 10 per cent indicates that the state is not conducting enough tests.
At 1.2 per cent, Uttar Pradesh has the lowest test positivity rate among the high burden states.
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