India on Thursday registered a net decline of 5,391 COVID-19 cases from the total active caseload registered in the last 24 hours, said a release by the Union Health Ministry. The genome sequencing of the positive samples collected from passengers who have come from the U.K. is being undertaken, it said.
“The active caseload of the country currently stands at 2,83,849 and the share of active cases in the total positive cases has further shrunk to 2.80%. Daily recoveries have outnumbered the daily new cases since nearly a month [27 days]. In the last 24 hours, 24,712 persons were found to be positive in the country. During the same period, 29,791 recoveries were registered, ensuring a drop in the active caseload. India has recorded less than 30,000 daily new cases continuously since the last 11 days,” noted the Ministry.
It added that Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of single-day recoveries with 7,620 newly recovered cases; 4,808 people recovered in Kerala in the past 24 hours followed by 2,153 in West Bengal. The Ministry said 76.48% of the new cases were from 10 States and Union Territories, with Kerala reporting the highest daily new cases at 6,169, followed by Maharashtra and West Bengal with 3,913 and 1,628 new cases respectively.
India has registered 312 fatalities in the past 24 hours with Maharashtra seeing the maximum casualties (93) and West Bengal and Kerala following with 34 and 22 deaths respectively.
