Corona Cases India:  The country continues to register over 15,000 Coronavirus cases. India has reported 15,786 new cases and 231 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country's active caseload now stands at 1,75,745.


Kerala


Kerala on Thursday recorded 8,733 fresh COVID cases, a day after the daily infections had gone above the 10,000 mark, and 118 deaths which raised the caseload to 48,79,317 and the death toll to 27,202.

After recording less than 10,000 COVID cases from October 14 to 19, fresh infections had jumped to 11,150 in Kerala on Wednesday.

With 9,855 more people recovering from the virus since Wednesday, the total recoveries touched 47,79,228 and the active cases dropped to 81,496, a state government release said.

Among the 14 districts, Ernakulam recorded the highest with 1,434 cases, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (1,102) and Thrissur (1,031).

There are currently 2,86,888 people under surveillance in various districts, of whom 2,77,907 are in-home or institutional quarantine and 8,981 in hospitals.


Maharashtra


Maharashtra reported 1,573 new coronavirus cases and 39 fatalities on Thursday, the state health department said.

It raised the caseload in the state to 65,98,218 and death toll to 1,39,925.

On Wednesday, the state had reported 1,825 new COVID-19 cases and 21 fatalities.

With 2,968 patients discharged from hospitals, the number of recovered patients increased to 64,30,394.

The state has 2,01,162 people in-home quarantine and 1,007 people in institutional quarantine.

There are 24,292 active patients.

Maharashtra's case recovery rate stands at 97.46 per cent, while the fatality rate is 2.12 per cent.

Mumbai reported the highest 427 new infections among the districts.