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New Delhi : Only 13,788 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in India in last 24 hours taking the tally to 1,05,71,773 at 8 am on January 18, 2021. On the other hand, 14,457 Covid-19 patients were declared cured/discharged in India in last 24 hours taking the tally to 1,02,11,342 on January 18, 2021, exceeding the number of active cases ( 2,08,012) by a whopping margin of 1,00,03,330 crossing the 1 crore mark. The active cases accounted for only 1.97% of the total Covid-19 cases ( 1,05,71,773) recorded so far in the country on January 18, 2021, , a drop of 814 cases in last 24 hours.
Of the 1,05,71,773 Covid-19 cases recorded till date in India, altogether 1,02,11,342 patients have been declared cured with the recovery rate (RR) being 96.59%. India has tested 18,70,93,036 samples so far including 5,48,168 samples on January 17, 2021, according to Union Health Ministry figure.
The Covid-19 toll climbed to 1,52,419 in India on January 18, 2021, with 145 new deaths being recorded in the country in last 24 hours including 50 in Maharashtra, 21 in Kerala, 12 in West Bengal, 8 in Delhi, 7 in Chhattisgarh, 7 in Tamilnadu, 6 in Uttar Pradesh, 5 in Punjab, 5 in Uttarakhand, 4 in Karnataka, 4 in Bihar, 2 in Gujarat, 2 in Haryana, 2 in Telengana, 2 in Madhya Pradesh, 1 in Andhra Pradesh, and 1 in Rajasthan. India had recorded 181 new deaths on January 17, 2021.
COVID-19 death toll in India on January 18, 2021, was : Maharashtra (50,438), Tamilnadu (12,264), Karnataka (12,166), Delhi (10,746), Andhra Pradesh (7,140), Uttar Pradesh (8,576), West Bengal (10,053), Gujarat (4,365), Madhya Pradesh (3,753), Rajasthan (2,747), Punjab 5,504), Telengana (1,579), J&K (1,921), Haryana (2,985), Bihar (1,457), Odisha (1,900), Jharkhand (1,050), Assam (1,073), Uttarakhand (1,611), Kerala (3,463), Chhattisgarh (3,558), Puducherry (642), Goa (756), Tripura (391), Chandigarh (330), Andaman & Nicobar (62), Himachal Pradesh (966), Ladakh (128), Manipur (366), Nagaland (88), Meghalaya (144), Arunachal Pradesh (56), Sikkim (130), Mizoram (9), and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (2).