In the last 24 hours, India has recorded 41,195 new Covid-19 cases along with 490 deaths says the figures released by the Union Health Ministry said. On Thursday, till 8 am, India’s active cases record a total of 3,86,351. The health ministry says that new covid cases in India have declined by 2,157 in the past 24 hours.
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However, the top five states registering the highest number of Covid-19 cases are Kerala with 23,500 cases, Maharashtra with 5,560 cases, Tamil Nadu with 1,964 cases, Andhra Pradesh with 1,869 cases and Karnataka with 1,826 cases.
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Kerala alone reports 84.29 per cent of the new cases from these five states. The maximum number of fatalities because of Covid-19 in Maharashtra (163) and Kerala reports 116 daily deaths. As per the health ministry data, India’s recovery rate stood at 97.45 per cent.
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India has administered a total of 41,38,646 doses in the last 24 hours, which pushed the total tally of doses administered to 51,90,80,524.
A total of 21,24,953 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.