Kerala reports more recoveries than positive cases, as 6,860 people recovered from the infection and 5,722 new cases of covid were reported today in the State.

The total active Covid cases in Kerala reduced to 68,229. Bringing great relief the test positivity rate reduced to 8.5% in the State..Over 67,000 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.

26 recent deaths were also confirmed due to Covid today, taking the death toll in the State to 1,969.

Meanwhile, In the last 24 hours, 45,576 persons were found to be infected with COVID in India. During the same period, India has registered 48,493 new recoveries ensuring a net reduction of 2917 cases from the Active Caseload.

The new recoveries continue to overtake the daily new cases continuously since the past 47 days.

India’s active caseload has fallen under the 5% mark yesterday.

This trend of more daily recoveries than the daily cases has led to a continuous contraction of India’s Active Caseload. It has ensured that India’s present active caseload of 4,43,303 consists of just 4.95% of India’s Total Positive Cases.

New Recoveries outnumbering the daily New Cases every 24-hour cycle has also improved the Recovery Rate to 93.58% today. The total recovered cases stand at 83,83,602. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases that is steadily increasing presently stands at 79,40,299.

77.27% of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States/UTs.

Delhi registered another 6,901 daily recoveries while Maharashtra reported 6,608 new recoveries. Ten States/UTs have contributed 77.28% of the new cases. Delhi reported 7,486 cases in the last 24 hours. Kerala recorded 6,419 new cases while Maharashtra registered 5,011 new cases yesterday.

79.49% of the 585 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs.

22.39% of new fatalities reported are from Delhi which reported 131 deaths. Maharashtra also saw a three-digit fatality count of 100 while West Bengal reported 54 new deaths.