The number of active cases of coronavirus infection in the country has been recording an average of more than 55,000-56000 cases daily for the past 10 days so far, down from the 80,000-85,000 daily cases in the last two weeks of September.
The third-most-affected country by active cases and fatality, and second by total cases, India has added 4,68,412 cases between October 13 and 21. Daily deaths too have been declining in most states.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the last 10 lakh cases have come in 15 days. The data showed that 54,404 cases were reported on October 20; 45506 on Oct 19; 56519 on Oct 18; 61893 on Oct 17; 62304 on Oct 16; 63441 on Oct 15; 67811 on Oct 14 and 63717 on Oct 13. The count of active cases across India has seen a net reduction of over 24000 since September 23.
There were 68669 cases reported on September 23. Similarly, there is a drop in the daily fatality rate. There were 701 deaths on October 21; 714 on Oct 20; 589 on Oct 19; 582 on Oct 18; 1032 on Oct 17; 840 on Oct 16 and 882 on
Oct 15.
The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. There is also a drop in daily fatality rate from 1085 on September 22 to 701 on October 21.
Maharashtra has reported 7,539 new cases, 198 deaths and 16,177 discharges in the last 24 hours. The total cases in the state is now to 16,25,197, including 42,831 deaths and 14,31,856 recovered patients. The active cases are now at 1,50,011. The COVID-19 tally in Thane has reached 2,03,727 after detection of 1,101 new cases.
With 7,482 new cases and 23 deaths in the last 24 hours taking the total tally to 93,291 in Kerala. As compared to the Wednesday tally of 8369, Kerala has reported a decline of 887 on Thursday. Andhra Pradesh recorded 3,620 new infections and 16 deaths. There is a decline of 126 cases from Wednesday.