India logs lowest daily COVID-19 deaths in 2 months: Data
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New Delhi: In a relief to the current COVID scenario, India on Friday recorded 1587 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the lowest in the last two months, according to data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
This is for the first time in the last two months that the death tally has come down below the mark of 2,000.
Meanwhile, the country also logged 62,480 fresh new cases of Covid for the 11th consecutive day with less than one lakh new Covid cases reported.
The top five states which have registered the maximum number of Covid-19 cases are Kerala with 12,469 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 9,830 cases, Tamil Nadu with 9,118 cases, Andhra Pradesh with 6,151 cases and Karnataka with 5,983 cases.
As many as 69.7 per cent of the new coronavirus cases are reported from these five states, with Kerala alone responsible for 19.96 per cent of the new cases.
On June 15, India recorded 60,461 cases, the lowest since March 29. The overall tally of Covid-19 cases in the country now stands at 2,97,62,793.
The active cases have come down below 10 lakh. The country has 7,98,656 active cases presently and has witnessed 3,83,490 deaths so far.
According to the Health Ministry, a total of 88,877 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total discharge to 2,85,80,647 to date.
The Health Ministry said that a total of 26,89,60,399 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 32,59,003 who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 38,71,67,696 samples have been tested up to June 17 for Covid-19. Of these 19,29,476 samples were tested on Friday.
