There were 46,790 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 587 related deaths in the past 24 hours as India’s infection count rose to 7,597,063, according to the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday. The number of Covid-19 cases and deaths has been relatively low for two days – there were 55,722 infections and 579 deaths on Monday.
For the fourth day in a row, active cases fell below the 800,000 mark to 748,538, according to the Health Ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard at 8 a.m., the death toll in India rose to 115,197, it showed. There were 69,720 Covid-19 patients who recovered between Monday and Tuesday and the number of recovered is 6,733,328 nationwide. The national recovery rate has risen to 88.63%.
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, which have been the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, have seen a decline in the number of Covid-19 cases since last month. The health ministry said that the trend of daily cases of coronavirus disease in these five reveals the various stages of decline in active cases. “These reflect the steady decline in ACTIVE CASES in the country, with the case load kept below 8L for 3 days in a row,” the ministry tweeted Tuesday morning with a graph of the cases from these five states.
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On Monday, the ministry had said that the national cumulative positivity rate has fallen below 8% and that the trend has continued uninterrupted for four days. The cumulative positivity rate was 7.94%, which the ministry attributed to the “high level of comprehensive testing throughout the country.” “As the evidence has revealed, more tests on a sustained basis have helped reduce the positivity rate. The decrease in the cumulative positivity rate has shown that the rate of spread of the infection is being effectively contained, ”the ministry added.
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The average daily positivity rate, or the percentage of samples that tested positive out of the total samples tested, was 6.13% for the third week of October, the ministry said. “This is the result of a successful TEST, MONITOR, TRACE, TREATMENT and TECHNOLOGY strategy of the central government effectively followed by the States / UT,” he said.
On Monday, 79% of the new recovered cases were concentrated in Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Maharashtra had contributed the most with more than 11,000 recoveries in a single day, followed by Kerala and Karnataka with more than 8,000 recoveries each.
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Of the 55,722 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, 81% were from 10 states and Union territories. Maharashtra continues to be the state reporting a very high number of new cases with more than 9,000 cases, followed by Kerala and Karnataka with more than 7,000 cases each.
The ministry said Monday that of the 579 deaths, almost 83% are concentrated in 10 states and Union territories. More than 25% of the new deaths reported are from Maharashtra with 150 deaths, it added.
India is the second most affected country after the United States, as the number of coronavirus cases has risen to more than 40 million worldwide.
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