Covid-19: Active Cases Stay Below 10 Lakh Mark For Two Weeks, Says Health Ministry | India News


NEW DELHI: For two weeks in a row, India has maintained a steady trend of registering less than 10 lakh of active Covid-19 cases, while the number of people who have recovered from the disease rose to 55,86,703, leading the recovery rate at 84.34%. the Health Ministry said Monday.
State governments and Union Territory administrations have followed the Center-led strategies of “test, trace, trace and treat” as part of the “whole of government” approach.
Early identification of cases through aggressive and accessible testing across the country combined with other measures, such as fast and efficient tracing and contact tracing, have paid off, the ministry said.
The Center has issued a standard treatment protocol that has ensured a standard of treatment and cure in various hospitals and public and private health facilities.
“Active cases have stayed below the 10 lakh mark for 14 days without ceasing. For two weeks in a row today, active cases are less than 1 million (10 lakhs),” the ministry said.
In total, 76,737 recoveries have been registered in a period of 24 hours in the country, while 74,442 new infections were reported during the same period, data from the Ministry of Health updated at 8 am showed.
New recoveries have outpaced new cases in recent days, the ministry said.
“The increased number of single-day recoveries has resulted in a sustained increase in the national recovery rate, currently set at 84.34 percent,” he said.
Seventy-five percent of the new recovered cases were recorded in ten states and union territories which are Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Delhi, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh.
Maharashtra alone has contributed more than 15,000 to the new recovered cases followed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh with more than 7,000 cases each.
There are 9.34,427 active cases that represent only 14.11% of the total cases in the country.
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and West Bengal account for 77% of active cases.
A total of 74,442 new confirmed cases have been reported in a 24-hour period in the country, and 78% of them are concentrated in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Delhi and Rajasthan.
Maharashtra has reported more than 12,000 of the new cases. Karnataka contributed more than 10,000.
In addition, 903 deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded in one day.
82% of the new deaths were in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, and Kerala.
The ministry said 36 percent of the deaths reported on Sunday are from Maharashtra (326) followed by Karnataka with 67 deaths.

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