India Reports 22,842 Covid Cases In Last 24 Hrs, Active Cases Lowest In 199 Days

India has registered less than 30,000 Coronavirus cases in a single day.

Covid testing in Mumbai (Image: PTI)

Corona Cases Update: After witnessing a surge for the past few days, India has again witnessed a decline in Covid tally. The country has reported 22,842 new COVID cases, 25,930 recoveries, and 244 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Active cases: 2,70,557 (lowest in 199 days)

Total recoveries: 3,30,94,529

Death toll: 4,48,817

Total vaccination: 90,51,75,348

Kerala

Kerala logged 13,217 new COVID-19 cases and 121 deaths, taking the caseload to 47,07,936 and the death toll to 25,303.

Health minister Veena George said the state has tested 96,835 samples in the last 24 hours and there are 745 wards across 368 local self-government bodies where the weekly population infection ratio was above ten per cent.

"There are 1,41,155 active cases in the state of which only 11 per cent are in hospitals," the minister said in a release.

Among the districts, Ernakulam reported the highest number of fresh infections on Saturday--1,730, followed by Thiruvananthapuram 1,584 and Thrissur 1,579.

Meanwhile, 14,437 persons recuperated from the disease, taking the total cured in the state to 45,40,866.

Maharashtra

 Maharashtra on Saturday reported 2,696 new coronavirus infections and 49 fatalities, the health department said, as mentioned in a PTI report.

It took the state's COVID-19 caseload to 65,56,657 and death toll to 1,39,166.

As many as 3,062 patients were discharged from hospitals, pushing the total of recoveries to 63,77,954.

On Saturday 1,64,096 samples were tested in the state, taking the total of coronavirus tests conducted so far to 5,90,74,660.

The recovery rate of the state is 97.27 per cent and case fatality rate is 2.12 per cent.

There are 35,955 active cases in the state.

Mumbai city reported 408 cases and six deaths on Saturday. The city's caseload rose to 7,43,816 and death toll to 16,122.