Covid-19: 85 percent of the total fatalities from ten States/UTs.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in the past 24 hours, 447 case fatalities were reported across the country out of which 85.01% came 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," the Ministry said in its release.

It further said that India has reported less than 50,000 new daily cases for the eight continuous days as in the last 24 hours, only 41,100 persons were found to be infected with COVID in India.

"Daily New Cases last crossed the 50K threshold on 7th November. Apart from the successful dissemination of COVID Appropriate Behaviour among the varied population groups, this trend assumes wider significance as many countries in Europe and America continue to see a surge in their daily numbers," it said.

It also said that in the last 24 hours, India also registered 42,156 new recoveries which have led to a further contraction of the Active Caseload.

"India’s present active caseload of 4,79,216 consists of just 5.44% of India’s Total Positive Cases. 15 States/UTs have cases per million lower than India (6,387)," it added.

According to the Ministry, new recoveries outnumbering new cases every 24-hour cycle has also improved the Recovery Rate to 93.09% on November 15. 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.