NEW DELHI: Led by declining average daily new cases of
Covid-19 and rising recoveries, the total number of active cases in the country has slumped to less than 3 lakh after over five-and-a-half months, the government said on Tuesday underlining the progress in combating the pandemic.
Average daily deaths due to Covid-19 have declined week-on-week since Nov18-24 from 528 deaths to 343 in the December 16-22 week. Average daily new cases have also declined significantly week on week during last 7 weeks from over 46,301 cases in the Nov 4-10 week to 24,135 during Dec 16-22
“It is a big achievement and credit goes to every frontline worker, administration and officials who are engaged in coronavirus containment related work. Currently, the active cases are less than 3 per cent of overall cases. The daily new cases are less than 20,000 after 173 days. More than 16.3 crore tests have been conducted so far,” health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said.
The declining trend in fresh cases as well as deaths in India is encouraging as various countries are still witnessing a significantly high burden of the infection and fatality. Large number of new Covid-19 cases are being reported daily from countries like the US,
Brazil, UK, Russia and Germany.
“From mid-September, India is witnessing a sustained and continuous decline in new cases. The cases per million population for the world is 9,697, India's cases per million population stand at 7,300, Russia's 19,719, UK's 30,052 and cases per million population in US stand at 52,915,” Bhushan said.
Bhushan said that the deaths per million population in India is 106 while the world's stand at 216.
Health ministry data shows 57% of the new cases in the last 24 hours were reported from six states including Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh,Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh, whereas 61% of deaths in the last 24 hours were in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and UP.