New Delhi: India’s test positivity rate fell to 3.2 per cent over the last 24 hours, the lowest since June. The number of daily cases, however, fell to just over 31,000 Tuesday.
With 108 people succumbing to Covid-19 in a single day, Delhi reported the highest number of deaths in the past 24 hours.
Daily cases
The number of new cases detected over the last 24 hours from across the country stood at 31,118.
Active cases
The number of active Covid-19 cases in India stood at 4,35,603 — which accounts for 4.6 per cent of the total coronavirus cases detected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
Number of deaths
As many as 482 Covid-19 patients in India have died in the last 24 hours. This brings the total reported deaths in India, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 1,37,621.
Delhi reported the highest number of daily deaths (108) in the last 24 hours.
Mortality rate
Punjab’s case fatality rate (CFR) continues to be the highest in the country, at 3.16. Maharashtra — which has the highest number of deaths in the country — has the second highest CFR of 2.58.
Sikkim’s CFR stood at 2.18, the third highest in the country. All three states have, however, shown a slight decrease in their respective CFRs.
India’s overall CFR is now 1.45.
Daily tests
In the last 24 hours, 9,69,322 tests were conducted across 1,176 government and 994 private laboratories in the country.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 14,13,49,298 Covid-19 samples have been tested in India.
Positivity rate
The test positivity rate (TPR) over the last 24 hours has dipped to 3.2 per cent — the lowest since June.
The overall TPR for India, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, further reduced to 6.6 per cent.
Recovered cases
As many as 88,89,585 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the infection in the country since the beginning of the pandemic. In the last 24 hours, 41,985 people have recovered from the disease.
Total cases
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 94,62,809 people have been infected by the virus. Second only to the US, the number of cases in India accounts for nearly 15 per cent of the total coronavirus cases detected across the world.
States with highest active cases
Maharashtra continues to have the highest number of active cases in India. The state has recorded 91,623 active cases as of Tuesday. As many as 18,23,896 people in the state have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, of which 47,151 people have died.
In the last 24 hours, 3,837 people tested positive for the disease in the state, while 80 people lost their lives.
Kerala’s active caseload is the second highest in the country, with 62,025 active cases as of Tuesday.
As many as 3,382 people tested positive for the disease in the state in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 6,02,982 so far. Of these, 2,244 people have died, with 21 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
In the last 24 hours, Delhi reported 108 Covid-19 deaths and 3,726 fresh Covid-19 cases. The total number of cases in Delhi so far stands at 5,70,374, of which 32,885 cases are active and 9,174 patients have died.
Rajasthan has the fourth highest number of active cases in the country (28,653). Of these, 2,677 cases were detected over the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 cases detected in the state to 2,68,063.
With 20 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the state’s Covid-19 toll now stands at 2,312.
West Bengal overtook Uttar Pradesh in terms of active cases in the last 24 hours. As many as 24,298 Covid-19 cases in the state are currently active.
In the last 24 hours, 2,671 people have tested positive for the infection, bringing the total number of Covid-19 cases detected from the state to 4,83,484.
Of these, 8,424 people have succumbed to the infection, with 48 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.