COVID-19 UPDATES AS ON 27.12.2020

 

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Landmark peak in India's Covid19 trajectory- Daily new cases drop to 18,732 after 6 months

Active Caseload slips to 2.78 Lakh after 170 days

Posted On: 27 DEC 2020 10:53AM by PIB Delhi

 

India has scaled a significant peak in the fight against the global pandemic.

Daily new caseload dropped below 19,000 after 6 months. 18,732 were added to the national tally in the last 24 hours. The new added cases were 18,653 on 1^st July, 2020.

India’s total Active Caseload has fallen to 2.78 lakh (2,78,690) today. This is the lowest after 170 days. The total active cases were 2,76,682 on 10^th July, 2020.

The country has reported a trend of sustained decrease in the number of active cases. India’s present active caseload consists of just 2.74% of India’s Total Positive Cases.

21,430 cases recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours. This has led to a net decline of 2,977 from the total active caseload. 

The total recovered cases stand at 97,61,538. The gap between Recovered Cases and Active Cases, that is steadily increasing, is nearing 95 lakhs and presently stands at 94,82,848.

The difference in the New Recoveries outnumbering New Cases has also improved the Recovery Rate to 95.82% today. This difference is continuously growing as the recoveries outpace the daily new cases.

72.37% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.

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.

76.52% of the new cases are concentrated in 10 States and UTs.

Kerala reported the highest daily new cases at 3,527. It is followed by Maharashtra with 2,854 new cases.

279 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours.

Ten States/UTs account for 75.27% of new deaths.

Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (60). West Bengal and Delhi follow with 33 and 23 daily deaths, respectively.

                                                                                                                                               

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COVID-19 UPDATES AS ON 26.12.2020

 

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India reports less than 30K Daily New Cases continuously for last 13 days

Daily Recoveries outnumber daily New Cases successively since last 29 days

Posted On: 26 DEC 2020 10:44AM by PIB Delhi

 

The exponential rise in recoveries in tandem with lower daily new cases has resulted in consistent decline in the active cases and low mortality. Total recovered cases are nearing 97.5 lakh (97,40,108) today. India’s cumulative recoveries are highest in the world.

The rising recoveries have also improved the Recovery Rate to 95.78% today.

India’s present active caseload of 2,81,667 consists of 2.77% of India’s Total Positive Cases.

Following the national pursuit, All States/UTs have recovery Rate more than 90%.

The daily new cases have been less than 30,000 for last 13 days. 22,273 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours in the country.

The daily new recoveries recorded in the country have been more than the daily cases registered since the last 29 days. 22,274 cases recovered and were discharged in the last 24 hours.   

73.56% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.

Kerala has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 4,506 newly recovered cases. 1,954 people recovered in West Bengal followed by 1,427  in Maharashtra.

79.16% of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs.

Kerala reported the highest daily new cases at 5,397. It is followed by Maharashtra with 3,431 new cases. West Bengal recorded 1,541 new cases.

251 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours.

Ten States/UTs account for 85.26% of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (71). West Bengal and Delhi follow with 31 and 30 daily deaths, respectively.

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National Task Force Discusses testing, treatment and surveillance strategies for COVID-19 in view of the new virus strain from UK

Posted On: 26 DEC 2020 5:59PM by PIB Delhi

A meeting of the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19 was convened today by ICMR under co-chairpersonship of Prof. Vinod Paul, Member Niti Aayog and Prof. Balram Bhargava, Secretary, Deptt. of Health Research & Director General ICMR. The meeting was also attended by Prof. Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS; Director General Health Services (DGHS); Drug Controller General of India (DCGI); Director, National Center for Disease Control (NCDC); other representatives from Ministry of Health and ICMR as well as independent subject experts.

Main objective of the NTF was to discuss evidence-based modifications in testing, treatment and surveillance strategies for SARS-CoV-2 in view of the recent reports of emergence of a new variant strain of the virus from UK. The variant strain has 14 non-synonymous (amino acid altering) mutations, 6 synonymous (non amino-acid altering), and 3 deletions. Eight mutations are present in the Spike (S) gene which carries the binding site (Receptor Binding Domain) of the ACE2 receptors, which are the point of entry of the virus into the human respiratory cells.

NTF deliberated in detail on aspects related to current National Treatment Protocol, testing strategy and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 vis-à-vis the UK variant strain. It was emphasized that since the UK variant strain is implicated to cause increased transmissibility of the virus, it is critical to identify individuals infected with this strain and adequately contain them to prevent its transmission in India.

NTF concluded that there is no need to change the existing Treatment Protocol in view of mutations emerging in the strain. Further, since ICMR has always advocated use of two or more gene assays for testing SARS-CoV-2, it is unlikely to miss infected cases using the current testing strategy.

NTF recommended that in addition to the existing surveillance strategies, it is critical to conduct enhanced genomic surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 specially in incoming passengers from UK. Besides, it will also be critical to conduct genome sequencing in samples where there is dropout of the S gene in lab diagnosis, proven cases of re-infections etc. Routine genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 from representative samples all across the samples needs to be a continuous and well planned activity.

NCDC informed that Government of India has taken cognizance of the reports of mutant variant of SARS-CoV-2 reported from UK and the response of other Countries to these reports. The situation is being monitored proactively. A strategy has been put under place to detect & contain the mutant variant.

The salient features of the strategy are:

A. At points of entry (All International Airports in India):

* All passengers who had arrived from UK between 21st December - 23rd December 2020 have been tested at the Airports

* Only after the RT-PCR test result are available, the negative passengers are permitted to exit the airports

* All positively tested passengers are put under institutional isolation and their samples sent for Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)

* Only after the confirmation of the non-mutant variant upon WGS result, the positive cases are permitted to leave institutional isolation as per the existing management protocol

* All the contacts of the positive cases are also put under facility quarantine and are tested as per the ICMR guidelines 

B.  Community Surveillance:

* List of all UK arrivals during the last 28 days has been shared by Bureau of Immigration with the concerned States

* All passengers who had arrived from UK between 25th November - 20th December 2020 are being tracked by the IDSP State Surveillance Units (SSUs) and District Surveillance Units (DSUs)

* Testing as per the ICMR guidelines of these passengers is being pursued and all positive cases are put under mandatory facility isolation

* Samples of all positive cases are being sent for WGS

* Enhanced contact tracing of these positive cases is being undertaken and these contacts are also put under facility quarantine

* Discharge of positive cases only after ensuring two samples testing negative after 14 days

C. Prospective surveillance:

* 5% of the positive cases from all States/UTs will be tested for WGS

* A genomic surveillance consortium, INSACOG, has been formed under the leadership of NCDC, New Delhi for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of circulating strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the Country.Further, more than 50 samples of UK returnees are currently under sequencing at the designated laboratories. Other laboratories in the consortium are: National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi; CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi; CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad; DBT- Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneshwar; DBT-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani; DBT-InStem-National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru; National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru; ICMR- National Institute of Virology, Pune.

It is proposed to continue enhanced genomic surveillance for early detection and containment of the UK variant SARS-CoV-2 strains. However, it is important to understand that like all other RNA viruses, SARS-CoV-2 will continue to mutate. The mutated virus can also be contained by measures like social distancing, hand hygiene, wearing masks and also by an effective vaccine, as and when available.

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COVID-19 UPDATES AS ON 25.12.2020

 

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

India’s Active Caseload of 2.81 lakh now only 2.78% of Total Cases

More than 0.97 Cr Cumulative Recoveries registered

Posted On: 25 DEC 2020 11:35AM by PIB Delhi

India’s active caseload has further slipped under 3% today, comprising merely 2.78% of the total cases.

The trend of more daily recoveries than the daily cases has led to a continuous contraction of India’s Active Caseload which presently stands at 2,81,919 today.

Continuing with the trend of the last 28 days, India has reported more daily recoveries than the daily new cases during the past 24 hours.

While 23,067 persons in India were found to be COVID positive, 24,661 new recoveries were registered during the same period. This has led to a net decline of 1,930 cases from the total Active Caseload in the last 24 hours.

India continues to have one of the lowest cases per million population in the world (7,352) much lower than many other countries of the Western Hemisphere. The global average of cases per million population is 9,931.

The Recovery Rate has improved to 95.77% today. The cumulative recovered cases stand at 0.97 cr (97,17,834). The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases is steadily increasing and presently stands at 94,35,915.

75.86% of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States/UTs.

Kerala leads with 4,801 persons recovering from COVID while Maharashtra recorded 3,171 recoveries. West Bengal registered another 2,054 daily recoveries. 

Ten States/UTs have contributed 77.38% of the new cases.

Kerala reported 5,177 cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra registered another 3,580 new cases yesterday while West Bengal recorded 1,590 new cases. 

336 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours. 81.55% of them are from Ten States/UTs.

26.48% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 89 deaths. Delhi also saw a fatality count of 37 while West Bengal reported 32 new deaths.

When compared globally, India has one of the lowest case fatalities per million population (106). India’s Case Fatality Rate is 1.45% presently.

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Central Government gears up for roll out of COVID19 Vaccine

2,360 Training of Trainers sessions held; more than 7,000 district trainees trained

Dry Run for vaccine administration in 4 States next week

Posted On: 25 DEC 2020 11:41AM by PIB Delhi

 

The Central Government is gearing up for the roll out of COVID19 vaccine across the country. As the vaccine administrators will play an important role in the vaccination process, training of trainers and those who shall administer the vaccine has been taken up across various States.

To strengthen the capacity of our human resource for COVID-19 vaccine introduction and roll-out, detailed training modules have been developed for different categories of vaccine handlers and administrators including medical officers, vaccinators, alternate vaccinators, cold chain handlers, supervisors, data managers, ASHA coordinators and all others involved in the implementation process at different levels. The training includes all operational aspects of training like organization of vaccination sessions, use of Co-WIN IT platform for management of the entire vaccination process,  deployment of HR  Cold chain preparedness, Management of adverse events,  communications and intersectoral coordination, biomedical waste management,  infection prevention protocols etc.

2,360 participants were trained during national level Training of Trainers which comprised state immunization officers, cold chain officers, IEC officials, development partners etc. As on date, the State level trainings had been completed in all States/UTs with participation of more than 7000 district level trainees, except Lakshadweep which will conduct it soon (29th Dec). Cascading down, 681 districts (49,604 trainees) have completed the training of Medical Officers on operational guidelines. Vaccination team trainings have been completed in 1399 out of 17831 blocks/ planning units. It is on going in the other blocks.

To facilitate redressal of queries on COVID-19 vaccination and Co-WIN portal related queries, national 1075 and state 104 Helpline capacity has also been strengthened to address queries beyond their routine support.

As a step to prep up for administration of COVID-19 vaccine, and to assess the readiness of the planned activities, a dry run has been planned in four states to start with, viz. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Punjab considering the geographical locations. Each State will plan it in two districts and preferably in different (five) session type settings e.g. district hospital, CHC/PHC, urban site, private health facility, rural outreach etc. This will exercise enable end-to-end mobilisation and testing of COVID-19 vaccination process (except the vaccine) and check the usage of Co-WIN in field environment, the linkages between planning, implementation and reporting mechanisms and identify challenges and guide way forward prior to actual implementation including improvements that may be required in the envisaged process. This will also provide a hands-on experience to programme managers at various levels. This two-day activity is planned on 28^th & 29th December 2020, and will include activities from the necessary data entries in Co-WIN to vaccine receipt & allocation to deployment of team members, mock drill of session sites with test beneficiaries to reporting and evening meeting. This will also  include testing for cold storage and transportation arrangements for COVID19 vaccine, management of crowd at the session sites with proper physical distancing.

An important focus of the dry run will be on management of any possible adverse events following immunisation (AEFI). In addition, adherence and management of infection control practices at the session site, to prevent disease transmission. The mock drill will include concurrent monitoring and review at the block and district levels, and preparation of feedback to be shared with the State and Union Health Ministry.

Detailed checklist has been prepared by the Union health Ministry and shared with the four States to guide them in the dry run.

The National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration of COVID-19 (NEGVAC) has recommended three prioritised population groups including  Healthcare Workers (HCWs) (about 1 crore), Frontline Workers (FLWs) (about 2 crore), and Prioritized Age Group (about 27 crore).   As vaccines are temperature sensitive and need to be stored in specific temperature, the present cold chain system consisting of 85,634 equipments for storage of vaccine at about 28,947 cold chain points across the country will be used for the cold chain administration. The current cold chain is capable of storing additional quantity of Covid-19 vaccine required for the first 3 Crore prioritised population i.e Health Care Workers and Front Line Workers.

 

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COVID-19 UPDATES AS ON 24.12.2020

 

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

 India’s Active Caseload continues to decline, stands at 2.83 lakh today

Less than 30K daily cases continuously since past 11 days

Daily Fatalities less than 400 for the past 12 days

Posted On: 24 DEC 2020 11:03AM by PIB Delhi

The ongoing trend of contraction of India’s total active cases continues. The active caseload of the country stands at 2,83,849 today. The share of Active Cases in the total Positive Cases has further shrunk to 2.80%.

A net decline of 5,391 cases from the total active caseload was registered in the last 24 hours.

Daily recoveries have outnumbered the daily new cases since nearly a month (27 days). In the last 24 hours, only 24,712 persons were found to be COVID positive in the country. During the same period, 29,791 new recoveries were registered ensuring drop in the Active Caseload.

India has recorded less than 30,000 daily new cases continuously since the last 11 days.

Total Recoveries are nearing 97 lakhs (96,93,173). The Recovery Rate has also increased to 95.75%.

79.56% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.

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 inWest Bengal. 

76.48% of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs.

Kerala continues to report the highest daily new cases at 6,169. It is followed by Maharashtra and West Bengal with 3,913 and 1,628 new cases, respectively.

312case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours.

Ten States/UTs account for 79.81% of new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (93).West Bengal and Kerala follow with 34 and 22 daily deaths, respectively.

Daily deaths in India are on a sustained decline. Less than 400 daily deaths have been registered for the last 12 days.                                                                                                                                               

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COVID-19 UPDATES AS ON 23.12.2020

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

At less than 3% of Total Cases, India’s Active Caseload of 2.89 lakh continues to retreat

26 States/UTs have less than 10,000 Active Cases

23 States/UTs have better Tests per Million than National average

16 States/UTs have weekly Positivity Rate less than National Average

Posted On: 23 DEC 2020 10:45AM by PIB Delhi

 

The ongoing trend of contraction of India’s total active cases continues. The active caseload of the country stands at 2,89,240 today. The share of Active Cases in the total Positive Cases has further shrunk to 2.86%.

Following the national trend, 26 States/UTs have less than 10,000 active cases.

The daily recoveries exceeding the daily new cases have ensured a total net reduction of the Active Caseload. While 23,950 persons were found positive in the past 24 hours, India has registered 26,895 new recoveries during the same period. A net decline of 3,278 cases has been recorded in the total active cases in last 24 hours.

India’s total cumulative tests are nearing 16.5 Cr (16,42,68,721).  Keeping in line with its commitment to conduct more than one million tests every day, 10,98,164 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. The testing capacity of the country has grown to 15 lakh tests per day.

India’s testing infrastructure has seen a significant boost with 2,276 labs across the country.

An average of more than 10 lakh tests conducted daily has ensured that the cumulative positivity rate is sustained at low levels and is presently following a downward trajectory.

India’s tests per million population (TPM) are 1,19,035. 23 States/UTs have better tests per million than the national average.

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16 States/UTs have weekly positivity rate less than the national average.

15 States/UTs have cumulative positivity rate less than the national average.

With the expansion of testing infrastructure, States/UTs that have positivity rate more than the national average are also registering a decline in their positivity rate. 

Total Recoveries stand at 9,663,382. The Recovery Rate has also increased to 95.69%.

75.87% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.

Kerala has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 5,057 newly recovered cases. 4,122 people recovered in Maharashtra in the past 24 hours followed by 2,270 in West Bengal.

77.34% of the new cases are from 10 States and UTs.

Kerala continues to report the highest daily new cases at 6,049. It is followed by Maharashtra with 3,106 new cases.

333 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours.

Ten States/UTs account for 75.38% of new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (75). West Bengal and Kerala follow with 38 and 27 daily deaths, respectively.

                                                                                                                                               

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Ministry of Health issued Standard Operating Procedure for Epidemiological Surveillance and Response in the context of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in United Kingdom

Posted On: 23 DEC 2020 2:21PM by PIB Delhi

A new variant of SARS- CoV 2 virus [Variant Under Investigation (VUI)-20212/01] has been reported by the Government of United Kingdom (UK) to World Health Organization (WHO) . This variantis estimated by European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) to be more transmissible and affecting younger population. This variant is defined by a set of 17 changes or mutations. One of the most significant is an N501Y mutation in the spike protein that the virus uses to bind to the human ACE2 receptor. Changes in this part of the spike protein may result in the virus becoming more infectious and spreading more easily betweenpeople.

Ministry of Health has issued SOP for Epidemiological Surveillance and Response for the same. The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) describes the activities to be undertaken at the point of entry and in the community for all International passengers who have travelled from or transited through UK in the past 4 weeks (from 25^th November to 23^rd December 2020). Any reference to testing in this SOP implies RT-PCR testing only.

The flights from UK are suspended temporarily from 23rd December till 31st December 2020 or till further orders. All the passengers travelling from or transiting through airports in UK and disembarking in India during the intervening period from 21st to 23rd December 2020 would be subjected to RT-PCR test on arrival. In case of a positive sample, it is recommended that spike gene-based RT-PCR test should also be performed. Passengers testing positive will be isolated in an institutional isolation facility in a separate (isolation) unit coordinated by the respective State Health Authorities. Necessary action to send the samples to National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune or any other appropriate lab for genomic sequencing will be initiated at the facility level. If the genomic sequencing indicates the presence of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 then the patient will be kept in the separate isolation unit and treated as per the clinical protocol.

Those who are found negative on testing with RT-PCR at the airport would be advised quarantine at home. Prior to check-in, the traveler will be explained about this SOP and In-flight announcements must also be made.

Those international travelers from UK who arrived in India since last one month will be contacted by District Surveillance Officers and monitored in community.

State Governments/ Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme will ensure that all the contacts of those travelers from UK or transiting through UK in last four weeks will be traced and monitored. They will also be tested as per protocol and contacts of positive cases would be subjected to institutional quarantine in separate quarantine centers for effective isolation and monitoring.

Link for the SOP:

https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/SOPforSurveillanceandresponseforthenewSARSCov2variant.pdf

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Union Health Secretary reviews the status of passengers coming from UK to India and found positive with 10 States/UTs where the flights from UK to India land

Posted On: 23 DEC 2020 7:51PM by PIB Delhi

Shri Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary, reviewed the status of passengers coming from UK to India and found positive in the States/UTs of  Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Goa, Punjab, Gujarat and Kerala and their response measures in a meeting held through Video Conferencing today, in the presence of DG, ICMR, Health Secretaries from the States/UT, NHM MD,Ms Arti Ahuja, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health , Dr Sujeet Singh, Director, NCDC, and other senior health officials.

The Standard Operating Procedure issued by this Ministry on 22.12.2020 for Epidemiological Surveillance and Response in the context of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in United Kingdom was discussed in detail in the meeting.

The States/UTs were advised to access the details of passengers from UK to India from the online portal AIR-SUVIDHA and Bureau of Immigration.  States/UTs were also asked to send the samplesof those found positive to the laboratories identified for genome sequencing.

The list of six identified Laboratories along with the contact details of their nodal officers was also shared with the states. the laboratories are: CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative BiologyNew Delhi; CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad; DBT- Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar; DBT-InStem-NCBS, Bangalore;DBT-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani, West Bengal; ICMR- National Institute of Virology, Pune. The number of such designated labs would increase over time and their details would be shared with the States/UTs.

The concerns related to logistics etc raised by the states were clarified in the meeting. The states were also advised to co-ordinate with the respective Airport Health Offices (APHOs) and surveillance officials in their state in order to ensure adherence to the SOPs.

                                                                                                                                                                                               

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COVID-19 UPDATES AS IB 22.12.2020

 

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

India’s Active Caseload slumps below 3 lakh; lowest in 163 days

Active Caseload retracts to less than 3% of the Total Cases

Less than 20,000 daily New Cases lowest in 173 days

Posted On: 22 DEC 2020 11:54AM by PIB Delhi

 

India has registered several landmark achievements in the fight against the global pandemic today.

India’s active caseload has fallen below 3 lakh(2,92,518)today.The share of Active Cases in the total Positive Cases has further shrunk below 3% to 2.90%. This is lowest after 163 days.  The total active cases were 2,92,258 on 12^th July, 2020.

A net decline of 11,121cases has been recorded in the total active cases in last 24 hours.

India has achieved a new low in daily cases. Less than 20,000 daily new cases (19,556)were added to the national tally in the last 24 hours after 173 days. The new added cases were 19,148 on 2^ndJuly, 2020.

India’s active cases per million population are amongst the lowest in the world (219). The figure is much higher for countries like USA, Italy, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.

The total recovered cases have crossed 96 lakhs (96,36,487) which translates to a Recovery Rate of 95.65%. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases continues to grow and presently stands at 93,43,969.

30,376 cases have recovered in the last 24 hours. New recoveries have been exceeding the new cases continuously since last 25 days. 

The high level of testing on a daily basis combined with high levels of recoveries along with steadily declining new cases have led to a slide in the mortality rate. 

75.31% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.

Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 6,053 recoveries. Kerala follows with 4,494 new recoveries. West Bengal recorded another 2,342 daily recoveries.

75.69% of the new cases are concentrated in 10 States and UTs.

Kerala reported the maximum daily new cases numbering 3,423 in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra recorded 2,834 new cases while West Bengal reported 1,515 new cases yesterday.

Ten States/UTs account for 76.74% of the 301case fatalities reported in the past 24 hours.

18.27% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 55 deaths. West Bengal and Kerala follow with 41 and 27 new deaths, respectively.

                                                                                                                                               

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