India's Daily Covid Cases Dip Below 40K, Recovery Rate Improves To 97%

India has reported less than 40,000 cases in the last 24 hours.

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Coronavirus Update: India has witnessed a dip in cases as the country reported 37,154 new cases in the last 24 hours; the active caseload is at 4,50,899. Recovery rate has increased to 97.22%. In the last 24 hours, 39,649 patients have recovered from the disease, according to the Union Health Ministry.

Active cases constitute 1.46% of the total cases. The weekly Positivity Rate remains below 5%, currently at 2.32%. Daily positivity rate at 2.59%, less than 3% for 21 consecutive days.

724 people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, as per Health Ministry.

Total cases: 3,08,74,376

Total recoveries: 3,00,14,713

Active cases: 4,50,899

Death toll: 4,08,764

Total vaccinated:37,73,52,501 (12,35,287 in last 24 hrs)

Maharashtra's Covid Cases Continue To Surge

Maharashtra on Sunday reported 8,535 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 156 fatalities while 6,013 patients recovered, the state health department said.

With the fresh additions, the tally of cases in Maharashtra rose to 61,57,799 and the death count to 1,25,878. The total count of recoveries so far climbed to 59,12,479, leaving the state with 1,16,165 active cases, it said in a statement.

Maharashtra's case recovery rate now stands at 96.02 per cent and the fatality rate is 2.04 per cent.

Pune reported more than 1,000 new cases taking its total cases to 10,68,389. Nine deaths were reported as the total death toll rose to 17,509. As per district authorities, the active case tally stood at 10,700 while the total death toll has crossed 18,093.

Mumbai reported 558 new cases to take its total case tally to 7,27,694 while the active count rising to 11,423. As many as 15 fatalities took the city's death count to 15,627.

Kolhapur in western Maharashtra reported more than 1,400 new cases taking its total case tally to 1,74,017 of whom 13,157 are active. 36 deaths saw the cumulative death toll rise to 5,048.