Five States continue contribute to 60 per cent of the total Covid-19 cases with Maharashtra topping the list with 21.6 per cent cases, followed by Andhra Pradesh with 11.8 per cent, Tamil Nadu 11 per cent, Karnataka 9.5 per cent and Uttar Pradesh 6.3 per cent.
Maharashtra also contributed 26.76 per cent of the active cases in the country, followed by Andhra Pradesh 11.30 per cent, Karnataka 11.25 per cent, Uttar Pradesh 6.98 per cent and Tamil Nadu 5.83 per cent, said the Union Health Ministry in a statement here.
Meanwhile, it said, the Covid-19 recovery rate in India has risen to 77.31 per cent with 69,564 patients recuperating from the disease in 24 hours pushing the total number of recoveries to 32.5 lakh. The case fatality rate has further dropped to 1.7 per cent, it said. Nearly five crore COVID-19 tests have been conducted till date with 7.2 lakh of them carried out in the last 24 hours, the Ministry said.
“On a continuous upward trajectory, India’s total recovered cases have crossed 32.5 lakh today, with 69,564 patients being discharged in the last 24 hours. This has resulted in the recovery rate touching 77.31 per cent,” it said in a statement.
In the last 24 hours, Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest recoveries at 11,915. Karnataka and Maharashtra saw 9,575 and 7,826 recoveries respectively. Tamil Nadu witnessed 5,820 people recuperating from the disease and Uttar Pradesh 4,779 recoveries during the same period, it said.
India’s Covid-19 tally of cases went past 42 lakh On Monday with a record 90,802 people being infected in a day, according to the Union Health Ministry data.