At least 22 states, including the Union Territories (UT), have a Covid-19 positivity rate lower than the national average of 8.19 percent, the Union Ministry of Health reported Thursday.
These states include: Bihar (2.61), Gujarat (3.30), Jharkhand (3.82), Uttar Pradesh (3.92), Himachal Pradesh (4.93), Rajasthan (5.11), Madhya Pradesh (5.98), Punjab (5.99), Haryana (6.65 ), Odisha (6.71), Uttarakhand (7.13), Jammu and Kashmir (7.24), Telangana (7.38) and West Bengal (8.15).
While India is complying with the World Health Organization (WHO) advice of 140 tests per day per million population, the country is testing more than 15 lakh of Covid-19 samples every day, the Ministry of Health said. Health.
Nearly 12 lakh of tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country. With 11.94,321 tests performed in the last 24 hours, the cumulative tests have exceeded 8.34 million rupees (8.34.65.975), he said.
In another row of achievements, 35 states / UTs have passed the recommended number of tests. The national average of tests per day per million inhabitants is 865.
Approximately 83,011 single-day Covid-19 recoveries were recorded in the past 24 hours versus 78,524 new confirmed cases. The total number of cases recovered amounts to 58.27,704. The gap between the total number of recoveries and active cases has crossed 49 lakh (49.25,279).
Active cases in the country are less than 10 lakh for the seventeenth day in a row. Currently, the 9,02,425 active cases represent only 13.20 percent of all positive cases.
A higher number of recoveries has helped the national recovery rate improve further to 85.25 percent, the Health Ministry said.
According to the government, it is observed that around 75 percent of the new recovered cases are concentrated in 10 states / UT. Maharashtra has only contributed the most with more than 16,000 recovery days.
At least 78,524 new confirmed cases were registered in the last 24 hours, while 79 percent of the new cases are from 10 states and UT. Maharashtra remains the very high-reporting state with more than 14,000 cases, followed by Karnataka with almost 11,000 cases.
The government said that at least 971 cases of death from Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours.
Of these, almost 82% are concentrated in ten states / TUs of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
More than 36 percent of the new deaths reported are from Maharashtra, that is, 355 deaths.
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