India went past the 88-lakh mark after recording 41,100 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours on Sunday, making it the eighth consecutive day of less than 50,000 new daily cases. Out of the total cases, 4.79 lakh cases are active, while 82.63 lakh people have recovered after testing positive.
Overall tally stood at 88,14,579 cases while the death toll has mounted to 1,29,635 with 447 more deaths recorded in a span of 24 hours, said the Union Health Ministry in a statement here.
The Indian Council of Medical Research said that a total of 12,48,36,819 samples have been tested for COVID-19 up to 14 November. Of these, 8,05,589 samples were tested yesterday, the ICMR said.
New recoveries outnumbering new cases every 24-hour cycle has also improved the recovery rate to 93.09 per cent,s aid the Ministry. Also, the total recovered cases stand at 82,05,728. The gap between recovered cases and active cases that is steadily increasing presently stands at 77,26,512, it said.
While ten States/UTs have contributed 82.87 per cent of the new cases, as many states contributed 79.91 per cent of the new recovered cases. With 7,117 persons recovering from Covid, Delhi saw the most number of recoveries. Kerala registered 6,793 daily recoveries while West Bengal reported 4,479 new recoveries.
Delhi reported 7,340 cases in the last 24 hours. Kerala recorded 6,357 new cases while Maharashtra reported 4,237 new cases yesterday.
The Ministry said that 85.01 per cent of the 447 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs of which 23.5 per cent of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 105 deaths. Delhi and West Bengal follow with 96 and 53 new deaths, respectively. 21 States/UTs have death per million lower than national average of 94, said the Ministry.