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For the first time since July 1, India’s day by day depend of Covid-19 cases fell below 20,000 on Monday even because the nation’s shrinking tally of lively cases went below the three-lakh mark after 163 days.
India recorded 18,588 contemporary cases on Monday, the bottom single-day depend since June 30, as per knowledge collated from state governments.
In one other vital improvement, Maharashtra not has essentially the most variety of lively cases within the nation. The lively case depend in India’s worst-hit state fell below 60,000 on Monday, and was overtaken by Kerala, which has greater than 60,500 folks presently contaminated with the virus.
Kerala additionally logged the highest quantity of contemporary cases, at 36,539, within the week passed by (December 14-20). It was the one main state within the nation to register every week-on-week rise in Covid cases, recording a rise of three,370 cases over the earlier week.
Only 5 different states and Union territories recorded an increase in cases as in contrast with the earlier week. In all these states/UTs, the rise was marginal. These embrace Jharkhand (283 cases larger than final week) and Sikkim (+97).
As many as 29 out of 35 states/UTs recorded a drop in cases, week on week. The largest dips had been recorded in Maharashtra (-12,048), Delhi (-5,653), Bengal (-3,922) and Haryana (-3,244).
In absolute phrases, after Kerala, Maharashtra reported the second highest variety of cases at 16,102, adopted by Bengal (15,033), Chhattisgarh (10,199) and Delhi (9,551).
Monday’s all-India case depend of 18,588 primarily got here out of a sharply decrease variety of exams finished within the nation on the day prior to this. Testing on Sunday had come all the way down to 9 lakh, a drop of greater than 2 lakh from the day prior to this. This was in step with the pattern of decrease testing on Sundays which ends up in a drop in cases each Monday.
There had been 302 deaths reported from the virus on Monday, down from 329 on the day prior to this.
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