New Delhi: Even as active cases in India continue to decline, the total number of Covid-19 cases reported from the country crossed one crore over the weekend.
Test positivity rate remained low at 2.7 per cent Monday, indicating that India is conducting enough tests and that the falling number of daily positives is unlikely to be a consequence of inadequate testing.
However, Maharashtra and Kerala — the two states with the highest number of active Covid-19 cases — are seeing a rise in active cases.
Daily cases
As many as 24,337 new cases of Covid-19 were detected across the country in the last 24 hours.
Active cases
The active cases in the country stood at 3,03,639 Monday. This accounts for 3.02 per cent of the total cases in India so far.
Number of deaths
As many as 333 Covid-19 deaths were reported from across the country in the last 24 hours. This brings the coronavirus death toll to 1,45,810 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Mortality rate
Punjab’s case fatality rate (CFR) is at 3.18 — the highest in the country. Meanwhile, Maharashtra — the state with the highest number of Covid-19 deaths — has the second highest CFR of 2.57.
Sikkim follows Maharashtra with a CFR of 2.22. India’s overall case fatality rate is now 1.45.
Daily tests
As of Monday, 16,20,98,329 Covid-19 tests have been carried out in India since the beginning of the pandemic. In the last 24 hours, the number of tests conducted across India stood at 9,00,134.
Positivity rate
Despite the drop in the number of tests, the test positivity rate was low at 2.7 per cent Monday. The overall positivity rate, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, decreased further to 6.2 per cent.
Recovered cases
As many as 25,709 Covid-19 patients were discharged from across the country. A total of 96,06,111 people have recovered from the infection in India since the beginning of the pandemic.
Total cases
Over the weekend, total cases in India crossed the one crore mark. The total number of Covid-19 cases detected in India as of Monday was 1,00,55,560, which is second only to the US.
States with the highest active cases
Maharashtra’s active cases are once again seeing an increasing trend. As of Monday, the state had 63,867 active cases.
In the last 24 hours, 3,811 people in Maharashtra tested positive for Covid-19. This brings the total number of cases detected from the state to 18,96,518.
Of these, 48,746 people have died, with 98 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
Kerala detected 5,710 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 7,05,869. Of these, 61,768 are active while 2,816 are deaths. In the last 24 hours, 30 Covid-19 deaths were reported from the state.
In West Bengal, the active case count dropped to 17,771 Monday, while the Covid-19 death toll rose to 9,360.
In the last 24 hours, 1,978 new cases were detected while 40 deaths were reported in the state. So far, 5,36,828 coronavirus cases have been reported from the state.
In Uttar Pradesh, 1,230 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total case count in the state since the beginning of the pandemic to 5,74,631.
Of these, 17,245 cases are active as of Monday. As many as 8,196 Covid-19 patients have succumbed to the infection in the state since the beginning of the pandemic, with 19 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
The active case count for Chhattisgarh dropped to 16,558 Monday. The state reported 953 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of cases detected from the state to 2,67,219.