India's active COVID-19 caseload further reduces to 3.62 pc of total cases

New Delhi [India], December 13 (ANI): Steadily following a reducing trend set over the past few weeks, India's active COVID-19 caseload has fallen to 3.62 per cent of the total active cases.
India has reported more daily recoveries than the daily new cases during the past 24 hours. The trend of more daily recoveries than the daily cases has led to a continuous contraction of India's active caseload which presently stands at 3,56,546 today, according to an official press release.
While 30,254 persons were found to be COVID positive in the country in the past 24 hours, 33,136 new recoveries were registered during the same period. This has led to a net decline of 3,273 cases from the total active caseload in the last 24 hours.
India reported one of the lowest cases per million population in the world (158) in the last 7 days, much lower than many other countries of the Western Hemisphere.
The total recovered cases stand at 93,57,464 today. The gap between recovered cases and active cases is steadily increasing and it has crossed 90 lakhs (90,00,918) today. The recovery rate has improved to touch 95 per cent (94.93 per cent) today.
75.23 per cent of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States and UTs.
Kerala leads with 5,268 persons recovering from COVID while Maharashtra recorded 3,949 recoveries. Delhi registered another 3,191 daily recoveries.
Ten States and UTs have contributed 75.71% of the new cases.
Kerala reported 5,949 cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra registered 4,259 new cases yesterday while West Bengal recorded 2,710 new cases.
As many as 391 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours. 77.78 per cent of them are from ten States and UTs. None of the States and UTs reported double-digit daily fatalities over the past 24 hours.
79.28 per cent of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 80 deaths. Delhi also saw a fatality count of 47 while West Bengal reported 44 new deaths.
When compared globally, India recorded one of the lowest new case fatalities per million population in the last 7 days (2). (ANI)