Aditi tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 15
As COVID cases in India approach five million, the government looked for positive signs in managing the disease with new daily cases declining for the second day in a row and fresh daily recoveries maintaining steady growth every 24 hours.
The total number of cases has reached 49.30,236 with 83,809 new infections.
New daily cases fell for the second day in a row from 96,551 on September 13 and 92,071 on September 14 to 83,809 on September 15. This was also the first time in four days that daily cases fell below 90,000.
Recoveries in 24 hours amounted to 79,292 compared to 77,512 on Monday and 70,880 on Sunday.
New daily deaths also fell from 1,136 on Monday to 1,054 on Tuesday, and the fatality rate dropped to 1.64% from the world average of 3.2%.
The Health Ministry said that India’s recovery rate had reached 78.28 percent and 60 percent of total active cases are in five states, as recent trends have been.
The total number of recovered cases amounts to 38,59,399 and, to date, India has 9,90,061 patients in treatment.
About half (48.8%) of active cases are in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Kerala and Telangana contribute about a quarter (24.4 percent) of active cases.
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu contribute 60.35% of the total active cases and are reporting about 60% (59.42%) of the total recovered cases.
Of the 1,054 cases of death in the last 24 hours, 69% are concentrated in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi.
More than 37 percent of the total reported deaths are from Maharashtra (29,894). The state reported 34.44 percent of deaths in the past 24 hours (363).
