At the same time, the government has said a total of 70,17,114 people have been vaccinated so far.

Along with the fresh coronavirus cases, states and union territories have also recorded 11,764 discharges, said the Union Health Ministry. The total number of recovered cases now stands at 1,05,73,372.

India now has 1,42,562 active Covid-19 cases. With 108 deaths, the country’s Covid-19 death toll has now gone up to 1,55,360.

ICMR has said a total of 20,40,23,840 samples have been tested for Covid-19 up to February 10. Of these, 6,99,185 samples were tested on Wednesday.

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For eleventh day, India has reported less than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases. The last time daily new cases crossed the 50,000 threshold was on November 7.

Delhi reported the most ( 6,396) new cases in the last 24 hours, followed by Kerala (5,792) , West Bengal (3,654) , Maharashtra (2,732) and Haryana (2,450) . These top five states account for nearly half (54 percent) of all the new cases in India.

Maharashtra has 82,904 active coronavirus cases, the highest in the country, followed by Kerala with 70,191 and Delhi with 42,004.

Considering the spike in COVID-19 cases in Delhi, Noida administration deployed COVID-19 testing team to conduct random tests of commuters at Delhi-Noida Border.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 9,37,279 samples for COVID-19 were tested on November 17 while a total of 12,74,80,186 samples tested so far.

On November 17, the Union Health Ministry saidthat the cumulative positivity is at 7.01 per cent while the Recovery Rate has improved to 93.42 per cent.

Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, West Bengal, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh account for 76.7 per cent of total active COVID-19 cases in the country, it said.

Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has said that India continues to be among the countries with lowest cases per million population in the world, the country’s figure is as low as 6,430 while there are countries having more than 20,000 cases per million population

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India currently has 74,32,681 coronavirus cases and 1,12,998 deaths , according to the data released by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday (October 17).

Among the total confirmed cases, there are 7,95,087 active cases and 65,24,596 were cured.
India has one of the lowest coronavirus deaths per million population in the world, as the country registered less than 1,000 fatalities daily since October 4, the Union Health Ministry said.

However Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said upcoming months are going to be crucial to combat COVID-19 in India, because of the winter and festival season.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday deputed high level Central teams to Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. These States have been reporting a surge in the number of new Covid cases in the recent days.

The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 39,565,948. While 29,648,915 have recovered, 1,108,617 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 8,288,278 cases. It is followed by India, which has 7,430,635 cases, Brazil (5,201,570) and Russia (1,369,313).

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In the last 24 hours, 11,72,179 samples were tested, the highest single-day tests so far, taking the total number of tests past 4.55 crore.

An additional 1,043 deaths linked to the highly contagious disease have pushed the total number of fatalities to 67,376. Over 29 lakh have recovered from the infection in the country so far. Maharashtra remains the state hit hardest by the pandemic followed by three southern states – Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

According to health ministry data, twice as many men have died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as women in India, with men accounting for 69 percent of all fatalities. More than 90 percent of the people who died, both men and women, were above 40 years of age.

As part of Unlock 4.0, metro services will resume across the country, except Maharashtra, in a graded manner between September 7 and 12, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said, urging commuters to follow Covid-19 restrictions and “name and shame” those violating them.

Meanwhile, some 500 regular trains will be discontinued and 10,000 stops across the Indian Railways’ network will be erased in a new timetable for operations that will be adopted once the pandemic ends and services return to normal.

Globally, over 25 million have been infected with the novel coronavirus till now. While 861,668 while succumbed to the virus, over 17 million have recovered so far.

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Meanwhile, India on Monday exceeded conducting 3 crore tests for COVID-19, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

“Aggressive TESTING leads to early identification and isolation of #COVID19 positive cases. This coupled with efficient clinical treatment brings the Fatality Rate down,” the Ministry tweeted.

India has been reporting over 60,000 cases daily since August 7, except for August 11 when the country registered 53,601 new instances of the infection.

A heat map based on state-wise Covid-19 data developed by the Department of Economic Affairs in the Union Finance Ministry reveals that economic indicators including electricity consumption, e-way bill generation and MNREGA work creation, are looking better in states with higher control over cases and recoveries.

While this may seem intuitive, it needs to be seen in the backdrop that economic recovery is crucially linked to a dozen states, which also account for 85 per cent of the Covid-19 caseload. Within states, the two worst hit states— Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu — make up 40 per cent of confirmed cases.

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According to the data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India recorded 18,522 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the overall count to 5,66,840. The death toll from the virus has now climbed to 16,893 with 418 persons succumbing to the viral infection in the last 24 hours. 3,35,271 COVID-19 patients cured so far.

Meanwhile , Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the nation at 4 pm on Tuesday. This would be his sixth address to the nation since the outbreak of the pandemic. In his last address to the nation on 12 May, he had announced a 20-lakh-crore financial package to boost the economy.

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