India Reports 6,990 Coronavirus Cases In Last 24 Hrs, Active Cases Lowest In 546 Days

The active caseload of India now stands at 1,00,543 which is the lowest in 546 days.

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New Delhi: Amid the Omicron variant scare across the country, India has been successful to maintain the downward trend of Covid 19. The country has reported 6,990 new Coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. According to the Union Health Ministery, the country registered 190 deaths and 10,116 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

The active caseload of India now stands at 1,00,543 which is the lowest in 546 days.

The death toll climbed to 4,68,980 with 190 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 53 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 155 consecutive days now.

The active cases comprise 0.29 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 98.35 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the health ministry said.

Kerala

  The state has registered a huge decline in Coronavirus cases, the fresh COVID-19 cases in Kerala have dropped to 3,382 raising the total caseload to 51,25,262.

The state also recorded 117 deaths which raised the toll to 39,955, an official release said. Kerala had logged 4,350 cases on November 28.

With 5,779 more people recovering from the virus since Sunday, the total recoveries reached 50,51,998 and the active cases dropped to 44,487, it said. Among the 14 districts, Ernakulam recorded the highest with 666 cases, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (527) and Kozhikode (477).

Of the 117 deaths, 59 were reported over the last few days and 58 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and the directions of the Supreme Court, the release said.

As many as 44,638 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, it said.