New Delhi: After seeing incessant spike for more than four months, the active daily Covid-19 cases fell below 4 lakh figure for the first time on December 6, the government said on Monday. Also, the daily recoveries surpassed the daily new cases over the past 24 hours.
“India has reported a landmark achievement today. India’s total active caseload has fallen below the 4 lakh mark today to 3,96,729. This number translates to just 4.1 per cent of the total cases. This is the lowest after 140 days. The total active cases were 3,90,459 on July 20 this year,” the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a statement on December 7.
Continuing with the trend of the last 10 days, India has reported more daily recoveries than the daily new cases during the past 24 hours. The number of Covid related deaths in the last 24 hours stood at 391.
“While 32,981 new positive cases were found in the country, 39,109 new recoveries were registered during the last 24 hours. The difference of 6,128 between new recoveries and new cases has led to a net decline of 6,519 cases from the total active caseload in the last 24 hours,” it added.
The difference in new recoveries outnumbering new cases has also improved the recovery rate to 94.45% as on December 7.
Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 7,486 newly recovered cases. Kerala follows with 5,217 new recoveries. Delhi registered 4,622 new recoveries.
However, Kerala also reported the highest daily new cases at 4,777. This is followed by Maharashtra with 4,757 new cases. West Bengal recorded 3,143 new cases.
Delhi saw the maximum casualties with 69 deaths. West Bengal and Maharashtra followed with 46 and 40 daily deaths, respectively.
The Ministry claimed that the new cases per million population in India recorded in the past seven days are amongst the lowest in the world. The figure for the last seven days is 182.
“The number of cases per million population has also been low for India. India’s case per million is 6,988 against the world average of 8,438,” it said.
The daily registered deaths per million population during the past week when compared globally demonstrate that India continues to have one of the lowest at 3 deaths per million population, it added.
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