India Reports 14,313 Covid Cases In Last 24 Hrs, Maharashtra Clocks Lowest Cases In 17 Months

The recovery rate is currently at 98.04% that is the highest since March 2020. 26,579 recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 3,33,20,057

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Corona Cases Update: India has registered a huge decline in Covid cases on Tuesday. The country has reported 14,313 new cases in the last 24 hours which is the lowest in 224 days.

The recovery rate is currently at 98.04% that is the  highest since March 2020

26,579 recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 3,33,20,057

The active cases account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at 0.63% which is the lowest since March 2020.

Kerala

Kerala on Monday recorded a steep fall in COVID-19 cases, logging 6,996 infections and 84 deaths, taking the caseload to 48,01,796 and fatalities to 26,342 till date. The state had logged 10,691 cases on October 10.

With 16,576 more people recovering from the virus since Sunday, the total recoveries touched 46,73,442 and the active cases dropped to 1,01,419, an official press release said.

As many as 66,702 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, the release said.

Among the 14 districts, Ernakulam recorded the highest number of cases with 1,058, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (1,010) and Kozhikode (749).

The state has been showing a decline in the daily fresh cases after crossing the 30,000-mark post-Onam festival in August.

Maharashtra

Maharashtra reported 1,736 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the lowest daily count in nearly 17 months, and 36 fresh fatalities, taking the infection tally to 65,79,608 and the toll to 1,39,578, a health department official said.

Maharashtra witnessed a drop of more than 550 cases but recorded an uptick in fatalities as compared to Sunday when it had reported 2,294 new COVID-19 cases and 28 deaths.

At 1,736, the state has recorded the lowest daily count since May 16, 2020, when 1,606 new coronavirus cases were reported, but the tally comes on the back of just over one lakh tests.

Typically, testing drops over the weekend and Maharashtra also saw a shutdown on Monday.

The official said 3,033 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, pushing the count of recovered cases to 64,04,320.

Maharashtra now has 32,115 coronavirus patients under treatment.

The state has 2,38,474 people in-home quarantine and another 1,163 in institutional quarantine, he said.

The official said Maharashtra's COVID-19 recovery rate stands at 97.34 per cent, while the fatality rate is 2.12 per cent. The cumulative number of coronavirus tests conducted in the state climbed to 6,03,03,740 after 1,05,567 samples were examined in the last 24 hours, he said.

(With PTI inputs)