Cases down; lowest deaths in 8 months

India’s active caseload of the Covid-19 patients dropped to 1.84 lakh, which is 1.73% of the total 13.21 lakh infections detected so far, with a bulk of the active cases (64.71%) only in two states — Kerala accounting for 37.7% of the active cases and Maharashtra 25%.The fatality was also down to 131 in the last 24 hours, which is the lowest in 8 months, recorded last on May 17. Total fatalities in the country are 1,53,470. Maharashtra recorded 45 deaths in 24 hours, Kerala 20, and Delhi, Chhattisgarh, UP and West Bengal 8 each.

The recovery rate has gone up to 96.83% as 13,298 recoveries in 24 hours pushed up the gross to 103.30 lakh. India has so far conducted a total of 19.23 crore tests, 5.70 lakh of them in 24 hours.

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