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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The total cases of coronavirus infections mounted to 28,36,925, while the death toll climbed to 53,866 with 977 new fatalities being reported in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed.

Case fatality rate has declined to 1.90 per cent.

There are 6,86,395 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which is 24.20 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 3,26,61,252 samples have been tested up to August 19 with 9,18,470 samples being tested on Wednesday.

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