India Witnesses Slight Dip In Covid Cases, Clocks Over 38K Cases In Last 24 Hours

India has registered a decline in the daily surge of Covid infections as the country recorded cases below 40,000 on Monday.

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Corona Cases Update: After registering over 40,000 Coronavirus cases in the past few days, India has witnessed a slight decline in the daily infections, The country has clocked 38,948 new Coronavirus cases, 43,903 recoveries, and 219 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Health Ministry.

Active cases: 4,04,874

Total cases: 3,30,27,621

Total recoveries: 3,21,81,995

Death toll: 4,40,752 Total vaccination: 68,75,41,762

Kerala

Kerala recorded 26,701 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the tally of COVID-19 cases in the state to 41,81,137. The death toll increased to 21,496 with 74 new fatalities, while the Total Positivity Rate (TPR) saw a slight dip. 

The TPR stood at 17.17 per cent after testing 1,55,543 samples in the last 24 hours, according to a state government release. With this, 3,23,90,313 samples have been tested till now, it said.

The bulletin also said that since Saturday, 28,900 people have recovered from the infection taking the total recoveries to 39,37,996 and the number of active cases to 2,47,791.

Among the 14 districts of the state, Kozhikode recorded the highest number of cases with 3,366 followed by Thrissur (3,214), Ernakulam (2,915), Malappuram (2,568), Palakkad (2,373), Kollam (2,368), Thiruvananthapuram (2,103), Kottayam (1,662), Alappuzha (1,655), Kannur (1,356), Idukki (1,001) and Pathanamthitta (947), the release said.