Coronavirus | Daily new caseload drops below 16,000 after 6 months, says Health Ministry

India’s day by day new COVID-19 caseload dropped below 19,000 after six months on Sunday, in keeping with a launch issued by the Health Ministry.

“18,732 cases were added to the national tally in the last 24 hours. The new added cases were 18,653 on July 1. Also, 279 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours,” mentioned the discharge.

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The Ministry famous that 10 States/UTs account for 75.27% of new deaths, with Maharashtra registering the utmost casualties (60). West Bengal and Delhi observe with 33 and 23 day by day deaths, respectively.

As per the Health Ministry’s information, India’s whole lively caseload has fallen to 2.78 lakh (2,78,690) at present. This is the bottom after 170 days. The whole lively instances had been 2,76,682 on July 10.

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“The country has reported a trend of sustained decrease in the number of active cases. India’s present active caseload consists of 2.74% of India’s total positive cases,” mentioned the discharge.

Currently, 76.52% of the new instances are concentrated in 10 States and UTs with Kerala reporting the very best day by day new instances at 3,527. It is adopted by Maharashtra with 2,854 new instances. 21,430 instances recovered and discharged within the final 24 hours. This has led to a internet decline of two,977 from the overall lively caseload.

The whole recovered instances stand at 97,61,538. The hole between recovered instances and lively instances is nearing 95 lakh and presently stands at 94,82,848, mentioned the Ministry.

“Kerala has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 3,782 newly recovered cases. 1,861 people recovered in West Bengal followed by 1,764 in Chhattisgarh. 72.37% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs,” mentioned the discharge.