Active Covid cases in country lowest in 9 months
India added 13,091 new coronavirus infections in a span of 24 hours taking the country’s total tally of Covid cases to 3,44,01,670, while the active cases declined to 1,38,556, the lowest in 266 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.
The death toll climbed to 4,62,189 with 340 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 34 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 137 consecutive days now.
The active cases comprise 0.40 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national Covid recovery rate was recorded at 98.25 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
A decrease of 1,127 cases has been recorded in the active Covid caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The 340 new fatalities include 259 from Kerala and 17 from Maharashtra. Of the 259 deaths, 48 were reported over the last few days and 211 were designated as Covid deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and Supreme Court directions, a Kerala state government release said on Wednesday.
A total of 4,62,189 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,40,447 from Maharashtra, 38,131 from Karnataka, 36,247 from Tamil Nadu, 34,621 from Kerala, 25,091 from Delhi, 22,904 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,267 from West Bengal. PTI
