Covid-19: Health Ministry claims active cases are on the decline in India

According to the data presented by the Union Health Ministry, India continues to report a trend of steadily declining active cases as a percentage of the total positive cases.

Presently the active cases comprise merely 13.75% of the total positive cases of the country standing at 9,19,023. The declining trend of the percentage of active cases is commensurately supported by a rising percentage of recovered cases.

The total recovered cases stand at 56,62,490. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases has crossed 47 lakh (47,43,467). With an increasing number of recoveries, this gap is continuously widening.

A higher number of recoveries has aided the national Recovery Rate to further improve to 84.70%. 75,787 have recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours whereas the new confirmed cases stand at 61,267.

The new recoveries have exceeded the new confirmed cases in 25 States/UTs. 74% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs viz. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, and West Bengal.

Maharashtra alone has contributed the maximum with nearly 13,000 single day recovery.