A day after the number of active cases in India fell below 7 lakhs for the first time in the past two months, 53,370 new cases were registered in the past 24 hours, data from the Health Ministry showed on Saturday. . The total count is 7,814,682 and the number of active cases is 680,680. A total of 650 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 1,17,956.
The drop in active cases is considered a significant milestone in India’s ongoing fight against Covid-19.
Survey-dependent Bihar has fewer than 20,000 active cases
According to data from the Ministry of Health, 24 states and UT currently have less than 20,000 active cases. The list includes, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Chhattisgarh, Ladakh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Puducherry, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Jharkhand Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, and Rajasthan.
New cases and new recoveries
According to the Ministry of Health data released on Friday, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha continue to contribute the maximum number of new cases.
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh account for 81% of the new recovered cases.
On Friday, the Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan interacted with Uttar Pradesh officials to review the Covid-19 situation in the state and said that the next three months will be decisive in determining the situation in the country. .
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