Wednesday, August 05, 2026
Active Cases now 1.66% of Cumulative Positive Cases
India has crossed a crucial milestone in its fight against the global pandemic. The daily new cases have touched a new low today.
9,102 daily new cases were added to the national tally in the last 24 hours after 237 days. The daily new cases were 9,304 on 4th June, 2020.
With a sustained, pro-active and calibrated strategy of the Centre based on ‘whole of government’ and ‘whole of society’ approach, the daily new cases have seen a consistent decline. This has ensured a steady fall in daily fatalities too. The country has recorded less than 120 (117) fatalities in the last 24 hours after more than 8 months (8 months 9 days).
India’s active caseload has fallen to 1,77,266 today. The share of Active Cases in the total Positive Cases has further compressed to 1.66% of the cumulative caseload.
A net decline of 6,916 cases has been recorded in the total active cases in last 24 hours.
Active cases per million population is lowest in the world (128). Germany, Russia, Brazil, Italy, UK and USA have much higher cases per million population.
India’s Cases per million population is also amongst the lowest in the world (7,736).
As on 26th January, 2021, till 8 AM, 20,23,809 beneficiaries have received the vaccination under the countrywide COVID19 vaccination exercise.
In the last 24 hours, 4,08,305 people were vaccinated across 7,764 sessions.
36,378 sessions have been conducted so far.
S. No.
State/UT
Beneficiaries vaccinated
1
A & N Islands
2,369
2
Andhra Pradesh
1,56,120
3
Arunachal Pradesh
7,307
4
Assam
19,837
5
Bihar
88,450
6
Chandigarh
1,928
7
Chhattisgarh
40,025
8
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
345
9
Daman & Diu
320
10
Delhi
33,219
11
Goa
1,796
12
Gujarat
91,927
13
Haryana
1,05,419
14
Himachal Pradesh
13,544
15
Jammu & Kashmir
16,173
16
Jharkhand
18,413
17
Karnataka
2,31,172
18
Kerala
71,973
19
Ladakh
670
20
Lakshadweep
676
21
Madhya Pradesh
67,083
22
Maharashtra
1,36,901
23
Manipur
2,485
24
Meghalaya
2,748
25
Mizoram
4,852
26
Nagaland
3,675
27
Odisha
1,77,090
28
Puducherry
1,813
29
Punjab
39,418
30
Rajasthan
1,61,116
31
Sikkim
1,047
32
Tamil Nadu
69,027
33
Telangana
1,30,390
34
Tripura
19,698
35
Uttar Pradesh
1,23,761
36
Uttarakhand
14,546
37
West Bengal
1,22,851
38
Miscellaneous
43,625
Total
20,23,809
The total recovered cases are 1.03 cr (1,03,45,985) today which translates to a Recovery Rate of 96.90%. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases continues to grow and presently stands at 1,01,68,719.
15,901 cases have recovered in the last 24 hours.
83.68% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 9 States/UTs.
Kerala has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 5,606 recoveries. Maharashtra follows with 3,080 new recoveries. Karnataka recorded another 1,036 daily recoveries.
81.76% of the new cases are concentrated in 8 States and UTs.
Kerala reported the maximum daily new cases numbering 3,361 in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra recorded 1,842 new cases while Tamil Nadu reported 540 new cases yesterday.
Five States/UTs account for 63.25% of the 117 case fatalities reported in the past 24 hours.
Maharashtra reported 30 deaths. Kerala and Chhattisgarh follow with 17 and 13 new deaths, respectively.
India’s deaths per million population (111) are amongst the lowest in the world.
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