India Records Lowest New Covid-19 Cases in 5 Days; Tally Over 7.5 Million

India’s health ministry data showed 55,722 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the lowest in five days, and 579 related deaths were reported between Sunday and Monday morning, which has taken the country’s tally to past 7.5 million. The number of fatalities in the last 24 hours were also the lowest in months.

There were 772,055 active cases of Covid-19 and the country’s death toll went up to 114,610, the health ministry’s dashboard showed at 8 am, with the overall tally of coronavirus infections at 7,550,273.

For the third straight day, there have been fewer than 800,000 active events. On Sunday, the ministry said India continues to report a trend of steadily declining active cases and accounts for 10.45 percent of the country 's total positive cases.

“Following the national trend, 22 states and Union territories have less than 20,000 active cases. 13 states and Union territories have more than 20,000 but less than 50,000 active cases, while three states and Union territories have more than 50,000 active cases,” it had said in a press release on Sunday.

The total recovered cases in India stand at 6,663,608 and the difference between recovered and active cases has reached 5.8 million at 5,891,553 with an 88.25 percent national recovery rate. The Ministry of Health stated that 79% of the recovered cases reported on Sunday were concentrated in the states and territories of the Union. With more than 14,000 single day recovery, Maharashtra had contributed the highest, it said.

79 percent of the 61,871 cases on Sunday were from 10 states and territories of the Union. "With more than 10,000 cases, Maharashtra continues to register a very large number of new cases , followed by Kerala with more than 9,000 cases," the ministry added.

Of the 1,033 deaths on Sunday morning, nearly 86 percent were in 10 states and Union territories, and more than 44 percent, or 463, were from Maharashtra.