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New Delhi : India’s active caseload, which has been decreasing continuously, was 2,31,036 on January 5, 2021. This constitutes only 2.23% of Total Positive Cases so far.
This is made possible by daily recoveries outnumbering daily new cases for 39 days in a streak. Against 29,091 people who recovered in the last 24-hours, India recorded only 16,375 new cases maintaining a steady level of testing (8,96,236 samples were tested in the last 24 hours). A net decline of 12,917 cases has been recorded in the total active cases in last 24 hours.
The total number of cases infected with the new strain of the novel Coronavirus first reported in the UK, now stands at 58. Twenty new cases have been identified at NIV Pune.
The INSACOG labs at NCBS InSTEM, Bengaluru, CDFD Hyderabad, ILS Bhubaneswar, and NCCS Pune have so far found no mutant virus.
The positive samples are being tested at 10 INSACOG labs across the country (NIBMG Kolkata, ILS Bhubaneswar, NIV Pune, NCCS Pune, CCMB Hyderabad, CDFD Hyderabad, InSTEM Bengaluru, NIMHANS Bengaluru, IGIB Delhi, NCDC Delhi) for genome sequencing.
All these persons have been kept in single room isolation at designated Health Care facilities by respective State Governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts, and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on. The situation is under careful watch and regular advice is being provided to the States for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing & dispatch of samples to INSACOG labs, according to a PIB release.
India’s cumulative recoveries have inched closer to the 1 Crore mark. The total recovered cases crossed 99.75 lakh (99,75,958) on January 5, 2021. This also increased the Recovery Rate to 96.32%. A total of 29,091 cases recovered in the last 24 hours.
82.62% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs. Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 10,362 recoveries. Kerala follows with 5,145 new recoveries. Chhattisgarh recorded 1,349 daily recoveries.
Ten States/UTs have contributed 80.05% of the new cases. Maharashtra reported 4,875 cases in the last 24 hours. Kerala recorded 3,021 new cases while Chhattisgarh reported 1,147 daily cases on January 4, 2021.
70.15% of the 201 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs. 14.42% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 29 deaths. West Bengal and Punjab also saw a fatality count of 25 and 24 contributing another 12.44% and 11.94% of the fatalities.