COVID-19: India’s active caseload falls below six lakh for first time after 85 days
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Country has additionally sustained its excessive variety of recoveries, says Health Ministry launch
India’s active COVID-19-caseload has fallen below six lakh for the first time in almost three months (85 days) with 5.94 lakh active instances on Friday. The active caseload was 5.95 lakh on August 6, mentioned a Health Ministry launch issued on Friday.
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“Presently the active cases comprise only 7.35% of the total positive cases of the country standing at 5,94,386. This has strengthened its trend of steady decline. India has also sustained its high number of recoveries. The total recovered cases stand at 73,73,375. India continues to be the topmost country with the maximum number of recovered cases globally. The difference between active cases and recovered cases is consistently increasing and stands at 6,778,989 on Friday,” mentioned the discharge.
The Ministry added that 57,386 sufferers had recovered and had been discharged within the final 24 hours whereas the brand new confirmed instances are 48,648. The national recovery rate has progressed to 91.15%. Of the brand new recovered instances, 80% are noticed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs .
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Kerala has contributed the utmost with greater than 8,000 to the only day recoveries adopted by Maharashtra and Karnataka with greater than 7,000 recoveries every, mentioned the Ministry.
High variety of instances in Kerala
It added that Kerala remains to be reporting a really excessive variety of new instances with greater than 7,000 instances adopted by Maharashtra and Delhi with greater than 5,000 instances every.
“563 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours. Of these, 81% are concentrated in 10 States/UTs. Maharashtra has reported the highest single day deaths (156) followed by West Bengal with 61 cases,” mentioned the Ministry.
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Giving particulars of the COVID-19 checks, the Ministry mentioned that a number of States/UTs had exceeded the suggested variety of checks. “The national average of tests per day per million population stands at 844. The figure for Delhi and Kerala has exceeded 3,000,” it mentioned.
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