September 4
India reported 42,618 new Covid cases on Saturday, a drop of 6% from yesterday.
330 persons succumbed to the disease in last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 4,40,225.
The recovery of 36,385 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally of recovered patients (since the beginning of the pandemic) to 3,21,00,001.
Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 97.43%.
The Active Caseload is presently 4,05,681. Active cases presently constitute 1.23% of the country’s total Positive Cases.
Weekly Positivity Rate at 2.63% remains less than 3% for the last 71 days now. The Daily Positivity rate stands at 2.50%. The daily Positivity rate has remained below 5% for 89 consecutive days now.
Kerala continued to register a record number of infections with the state reporting 29,322 new cases and 131 deaths. The state has reported a test positivity rate of 17.91 per cent.
Maharashtra contributed 4,313 cases and 92 fatalities to India’s daily number. There are now 50,466 active coronavirus cases in Maharashtra and the state’s case recovery rate stands at 97.04 per cent while the fatality rate is 2.12 per cent.
