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New Delhi : The trend of more daily recoveries than the daily cases has led to a continuous contraction of active Covid-19 cases. India’s Active Caseload dropped down to 2.50 lakh and was 2,50,183 on January 2, 2021. India’s active caseload accounts for just 2.43% of the total cases, now under 2.5%.
While 19,079 persons in India were found to be COVID positive in last 24 hours, 22,926 new recoveries were registered during the same period. This has led to a net decline of 4,071 cases from the total Active Caseload in the last 24 hours.
India has recorded one of the lowest new cases per million population in the last 7 days (101). Brazil, Russia, France, Italy, USA, and UK have much higher cases per million population reported in the last 7 days, according to a PIB release.
India’s cumulative recoveries are inching closer to 1 crore. The cumulative recovered cases have surpassed 99 lakh (99,06,387). The Recovery Rate improved to 96.12% on January 2, 2021. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases is steadily increasing and presently stands at 96,56,204.
78.64% of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States/UTs. Kerala leads with 5,111 persons recovering from COVID while Maharashtra recorded 4,279 recoveries. West Bengal registered another 1,496 daily recoveries.
Ten States/UTs have contributed 80.56% of the new cases.Kerala reported 4,991 cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra registered another 3,524 new cases on January 1, 2021, while West Bengal recorded 1,153 new cases.
224 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours. 75.45% of them are from Ten States/UTs. 26.33% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 59 deaths. West Bengal also saw a fatality count of 26 while Kerala reported 23 new deaths.