At 28,204, India records lowest daily Covid cases in nearly 5 months
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New Delhi: The coronavirus tally in India jumped by 28,204 cases on Tuesday, pushing the cumulative number to reach 31,998,158, according to the data released by the Union health ministry at 9 am. The daily death toll saw an increase of 373, the daily bulletin showed, which took the overall fatality count to 428,682 .
The top five states which have registered maximum cases are Kerala with 13,049 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 4,505 cases, Tamil Nadu with 1,929 cases, Andhra Pradesh with 1,413 cases and Karnataka with 1,186 cases.
78.3 per cent of the new cases are reported from these five states, with Kerala alone responsible for 46.27 per cent of the new cases.
Meanwhile, maximum casualties due to Covid-19 were reported in Kerala with 105, followed by Maharashtra with 68 daily deaths.
India has achieved the highest recovery rate ever, which currently stands at 97.45 per cent. Additionally, the active caseload has registered a substantial decline of 13,680 and currently stands at 3,88,508, which is the lowest in the last 139 days. The active caseloads constitute 1.21 per cent of total cases that is the lowest since March 2020, according to the bulletin released by the health ministry.
As per the health ministry data, total 41,511 patients were discharged from the hospitals and health centres in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cured to 3,11,80,968 to the date in India.
The weekly positivity rate remains below 5 per cent and is currently at 2.36 per cent. The daily positivity rate continues to remain below 3 per cent for 15 continuous days and currently stands at 1.87 per cent.
Meanwhile, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 51 crore cumulatively. A total of 54,91,647 doses of vaccines were administered in the last 24 hours, pushing the total vaccination so far at 51,45,00,268, said the bulletin.
More than 52.56 crore (52,56,35,710) vaccine doses have been provided to the states/UTs so far, through all sources and a further 48,43,100 doses are in the pipeline, pointed out the health ministry data.
