New Delhi: India’s R value for Covid-19 remained steady at 0.92 this week, as active cases continued to decline. While testing has remained below eight lakh throughout the week, it did not lead to a significant increase in test positivity rate Friday.
Meanwhile, 49,59,445 healthcare workers in India have received Covid-19 vaccines so far.
R value
The effective reproduction number (R) has remained the same as last week, at 0.92. The value needs to be sustained below 1 for a pandemic to come to an end.
Daily cases
As many as 12,408 new cases of Covid-19 infections were reported in the country in the last 24 hours, with over 71 per cent of the new cases reported from Kerala and Maharashtra.
Active cases
Active cases in India continued to decline, falling to 1,51,460 Friday. The last time active cases were below 1.6 lakh was on 17 June.
Number of deaths
India’s total Covid-19 death toll now stands at 1,54,823, with 120 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra and Kerala reported the highest number of daily deaths among the states.
Mortality rate
Punjab’s case fatality rate (CFR) remained the highest in the country, at 3.23. Meanwhile, Maharashtra’s CFR is the second highest at 2.51. Sikkim’s fatality rate has increased to 2.21. The overall fatality rate for India has reduced to 1.43.
Daily tests
In the last 24 hours, 7,15,776 Covid-19 tests were carried out across 1,214 government laboratories and 1,153 private laboratories.
A total of 19,99,31,795 Covid-19 tests have been carried out in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
Positivity rate
The daily test positivity rate for India, in the last 24 hours, was 1.7 per cent. The overall positivity, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, is 5.4 per cent.
Recovered cases
In the last 24 hours, 15,853 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals across India. This brings the total number of Covid-19 recoveries, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 1,04,96,308.
Total cases
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 1,08,02,591 people in India have been infected with Covid-19. The largest number of cases reported so far were from Maharashtra, followed by Karnataka and Kerala.
States with the highest active cases
Active cases in Kerala declined to 69,109 Friday, with 6,102 new Covid-19 cases reported from the state in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state to 9,50,811.
A total of 3,813 people have died due to Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, with 17 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra’s active case count declined to 36,113 Friday. As many as 2,736 new cases of Covid-19 were reported from the state in the last 24 hours.
This brings the total number of cases detected from the state to 20,36,002. As many as 51,215 people have died of Covid-19, with 46 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
Karnataka reported 474 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total infections detected in the state, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 9,41,070. Of this, 5,936 cases are currently active, while 12,227 people have died. Two Covid 19 deaths were reported in the state in the last 24 hours.
West Bengal’s active case count fell to 5,097 in the last 24 hours. With 206 new Covid-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of infections detected from the state so far reached 5,70,787 Friday.
A total of 10,199 people in the state have lost their lives to Covid-19, with four deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
In Uttar Pradesh, active cases declined to 4,629 Friday, with 133 new cases of Covid-19 detected in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of cases in the state so far to 6,00,970. Of this, a total of 8,680 people have died so far, with six deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
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