Keeping with the trend of single-day COVID-19 recoveries outnumbering daily new cases, 49,082 patients have recuperated from the disease in a day taking the total recoveries to 78.68 lakh which exceed the active infections by 73,56,303, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Incidentally, seventy six per cent of the new recovered cases, and as many, new infections were reported from 10 states and UTs. Kerala reported 7,201 cases in the last 24 hours followed closely by Delhi with 6,953 cases. Maharashtra has come a distant third with 3,959 new cases yesterday.
The Ministry said that the trend of single-day Covid-19 recoveries exceeding daily new cases has been observed for the 37th day on Sunday.
“This has played a pivotal role in pushing down the active cases which is presently 5,12,665 and comprise 6.03 per cent of the total caseload,” the ministry said. India has reported less than 50,000 daily new cases in a span of 24 hours with 45,674 persons having tested positive for coronavirus infection.
“New daily cases have been trending downward since October 15,” the ministry said.
“The gap between recovered cases and active cases presently stands at 73,56,303. This gap has been steadily increasing,” the ministry underlined.
Seventy six per cent of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States and UTs.