61% of new cases from Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Raj and UP

New Delhi: 44,489 new confirmed cases of Kovid-19 have been registered in the country during the last 24 hours. Of these, 60.72 per cent cases are from six states / UTs – Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Kerala has the highest number of 6,491 new cases. An additional 6,159 cases have been registered in Maharashtra and 5,246 in Delhi.

524 patients have died in the last 24 hours. Of these, 60.50 per cent of the deaths have been reported in six states / UTs – Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

Out of these six states, Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are the four states with the highest number of new cases and the highest number of deaths.

The maximum number of new cases of death were recorded in 99 Delhi, 65 in Maharashtra and 51 in West Bengal.

The current number of active cases (4,52,344) in India is 4.88 percent of the total active cases and remains below the level of five percent.

65 per cent of the active cases have been reported in those 8 states / UTs, where maximum number of new cases and maximum number of deaths have been reported every day.

61 percent of total deaths have been reported in these 8 states / UTs.

Following is the chart comparing the national average (6,715) per 10 lakh cases in these 8 states / UTs:

Chart comparing the rate of deaths in these 8 states / union territories with the national average (1.46 percent):

The total number of cured patients in India is close to 87 lakhs (86,79,138). The recovery rate of patients today came to 93.66 percent. In the last 24 hours in the country, 36,367 cases have been cured.

The rate of patients recovering in 15 states / UTs is higher than the national average.

The recovery rate of patients in 20 states / UTs is lower than the national average.