A total of 585 people succumbed to the deadly virus, taking the overall fatalities to 1,31,578. However the country’s new deaths per million due to coronavirus disease in the past seven days has continued to remain the lowest in the world.

The total active cases stand at 4,43,303 after a decrease of 3,502 in the last 24 hours.
The total discharged cases are at 83,83,603 with 48,493 new recoveries in the last 24 hours.

For the 12th day today, India has reported less than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases. According to Health ministry, the recovery rate now stands at 93.58%.

The Indian Council of Medical Research said that a total of 12,85,08,389 samples have been tested for Covid-19 up to 18 November. Of these, 10,28,203 samples were tested yesterday, the ICMR added.

As covid-19 cases and death continues to rise in Delhi , Tata group in collaboration with Apollo group of hospitals launched an indigenous testing kit based on the gene-editing technology CRISPR called Feluda.

The test is likely to be cheaper than the current gold standard RT-PCR and equally accurate, helping in scaling up Covid-19 testing as it would need a machine that is widely available with laboratories and science institutions.

The global infection tally has gone up to 56,187,563 with the United States continuing to report the maximum number of Covid-19 cases at 11,525,540. The virus has claimed 1,348,600 lives across the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tracker.

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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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