The total number of persons found infected with the mutant U.K. strain of COVID-19 is 96, according to an update issued by the Health Ministry on Monday.
India has also reported less than 170 daily COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, after 229 days, added the Ministry stating that the decline in new cases and high rate of recovery had in tandem resulted in the continuous fall in the country’s active caseload on a sustained basis.
India reported 161case fatalities in the past 24 hours with six States /Union Territories accounting for 69.57% of the daily deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties of 34 followed by Kerala 23 and West Bengal 19.
Data released by the Ministry added that the country’s total active caseload had fallen to 2.25 lakh (2,22,526) currently and that the present active caseload consisted of 2.13% of India’s total positive cases.
Also, 16,959 people have recovered and were discharged in the last 24hours. This has led to a net decline of 809 from the total active caseload. The total recovered cases stand at 10,092,909. The gap between recovered cases and active cases, that is steadily increasing, is nearing 99 lakhs and at present stands at 98,70,383, according to the Ministry.
It added that the recovery rate had improved to 96.43% which was among the highest in the world and 78.56% of the new recovered cases were observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
Kerala reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 4,659. In Maharashtra, 2,302 people recovered followed by 962 in Chhattisgarh.
Of the new cases, 80.25% are concentrated in nine States and UTs. Kerala has also reported the highest daily new cases at 4,545. It is followed by Maharashtra with 3,558 new cases.
