India continues to have one of the lowest COVID-19 cases per million globally

Active cases of COVID-19 in India remained below 6 lakh for third consecutive day, comprising only 6.97 per cent of total caselo, Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.

trajectory of active caselo across different states and UTs have been diverse demonstrating ir focused efforts and grual progress in ir fight against COVID-19, ministry said, ting Karnataka has reported a steep decline in active cases in a span of 24 hours.

"With consistent decline in active cases, cases per million in India are among lowest in world. India's aver cases per million stand at 5,930," it highlighted.

Seventeen states and UTs have COVID-19 cases per million lower than national aver.

"For third day after active cases dropped below 6 lakh mark after nearly three months, progressive decline has been maintained," ministry underlined Presently, re are 5,70,458 active coronavirus infections in country.

active cases have dropped to only 6.97 per cent of total cases of country demonstrating a stey falling percent of total cases, ministry stated.

This sustained achievement is result of collaborative action by states and UTs under Centre's strategy of comprehensive testing, timely tracking, quick hospitalization and herence to Standard Treatment Protocol which has ensured a standardised quality of medical care across public and private hospitals and for home isolation cases.

re has been a stey decline in number of daily deaths in India. A total of 470 deaths have been reported in a span of 24 hours in country. India's deaths per million population is one of lowest in world and stands at 88.

Twenty-one states and UTs have deaths per million lower than national aver, ministry said.

" declining trend of percent active cases is commensurately supported by rising percent of recovered cases. total recovered cases have surged to 74,91,513 and exceed active cases of COVID-19 by 69,21,055.

With an increasing number of recoveries, this gap is continuously widening.

A higher number of recoveries has aided national recovery rate to furr improve to 91.54 per cent. A total of 58,684 people have recovered and were discharged in a span of 24 hours as against 46,963 infections reported during same period.

Seventy-six per cent of new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 states and UTs.

Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra have contributed maximum to new recovered cases with more than 7,000 single day recoveries. Delhi and West Bengal, both have ded more than 4,000 to new recoveries, ministry said.

A total of 46,963 new coronavirus infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours of which 77 per cent are from 10 states and UTs. Kerala is still reporting a very high number of new cases with more than 7,000 cases followed by Maharashtra and Delhi with more than 5,000 cases.

As many as 470 case fatalities have been reported in a span of 24 hours. Of se, nearly 78 per cent are concentrated in ten states and UTs.

More than 15 per cent of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra (74 deaths).    India's COVID-19 caselo mounted to 81,84,082 with 46,963 new infections being reported in a day, while  death toll climbed to 1,22,111 with 470 new fatalities, data updated at 8 am showed.