Corona Cases Today: India Records 19,740 Covid Cases In Last 24 Hrs, Active Cases Lowest In 206 Days

<p>Corona Cases Update: India has witnessed a marginal dip in Coronavirus cases after registering a surge in the last few days. The country has reported 19,740 fresh infections in the last 24 hours taking the active caseload at 2,40,221 which is the lowest in 205 days, informed the Union Health Ministry. The total caseload was 3,39,35,309.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>248 deaths were recorded in the last 24 Hrs. More than 50% of the total cases have come from Kerala.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Active cases account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at 0.71%, the lowest since March 2020. The recovery rate is currently at 97.96% that is the highest since March 2020</p> <p>24,963 patients have recovered in the country in the last 24 hours taking the total Recoveries to 3,32,25,221</p> <h3>Kerala</h3> <p>Kerala on Friday logged 10,944 fresh COVID-19 cases and 120 deaths, taking the infection count to 47,74,639 and fatalities to 26,070.&nbsp;</p> <p>The number of people who recovered from the disease since Thursday was 12922, which brought the total recoveries to 46,31,330 and the active cases to 1,16,645, an official press release said.</p> <p>The positivity rate was 11.46 for Friday and 12.34 for the past 7 days.&nbsp;</p> <p>Among the 14 districts, Ernakulam recorded the highest number of cases with 1,932, followed by&nbsp; Thiruvananthapuram (1,703), Kozhikode (1,265), and Thrissur (1,110).</p> <p>The State has been showing a decline in the daily fresh cases after crossing the 30,000-mark post-Onam festival in August.</p> <h3>Maharashtra</h3> <p>&nbsp;Maharashtra on Thursday reported 2,620 new coronavirus positive cases, taking its overall infection tally to 65,73,092, while the death of 59 persons pushed the toll to 1,39,470, the health department said.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Maharashtra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Maharashtra</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> Updates for today<br /><br />*⃣New Cases - 2,620<br />*⃣Recoveries - 2,943 <br />*⃣Deaths - 59 <br />*⃣Active Cases - 33,011<br />*⃣Total Cases till date - 65,73,092<br />*⃣Total Recoveries till date - 63,97,018<br />*⃣Total Deaths till date - 1,39,470<br />*⃣Tests till date - 5,99,14,679<br /><br />(1/4)🧵</p> &mdash; PIB in Maharashtra 🇮🇳 (@PIBMumbai) <a href="https://twitter.com/PIBMumbai/status/1446490348042162188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>A total of 2,943 patients recuperated and were discharged during the day, which increased the recovery count to 63,97,018, it said in a statement.</p> <p>There are 33,011 active cases in the state at present.</p> <p>Maharashtra's COVID-19 recovery rate stands at 97.32 per cent, while the fatality rate is 2.12 per cent.</p> <p>As 1,47,320 people were tested during the day, the state's cumulative test count reached 5,97,66,957.</p> <p>Mumbai city reported 1010 cases and 15 deaths. So far, 7,47,685 cases and 16,149 deaths have been recorded in the metropolis.</p> <p>Mumbai division, which comprises the city and its satellite townships, logged 995 cases and seven deaths during the day.</p>

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