India on Saturday reported 41,100 coronavirus cases taking the total tally to 88,14,579, as per the Union Health Ministry.
The death toll has mounted to 1,29,635 with 447 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
Total active cases are at 4,79,216 after a decrease of 1,503 in the last 24 hrs. Total recovered cases are 82,05,728 with 42,156 new discharges in the last 24 hrs.
15 States/UTs have cases per million lower than India (6,387).
New Recoveries outnumbering New Cases every 24-hour cycle has also improved the Recovery Rate to 93.09% today. The total recovered cases stand at 82,05,728. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases that is steadily increasing presently stands at 77,26,512.
79.91% of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States/UTs.
With 7,117 persons recovering from COVID, Delhi saw the most number of recoveries. Kerala registered 6,793 daily recoveries while West Bengal reported 4,479 new recoveries. Ten States/UTs have contributed 82.87% of the new cases.
Delhi reported 7,340 cases in the last 24 hours. Kerala recorded 6,357 new cases while Maharashtra reported 4,237 new cases yesterday. 85.01% of the 447 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs.
23.5% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 105 deaths. Delhi and West Bengal follow with 96 and 53 new deaths, respectively. 21 States/UTs have death per million lower than the National Average of 94.