India’s active COVID-19-caseload has fallen below six lakh for the first time in nearly three months (85 days) with 5.94 lakh active cases on Friday. The active caseload was 5.95 lakh on August 6, said a Health Ministry release issued on Friday.
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“Presently the active cases comprise only 7.35% of the total positive cases of the country standing at 5,94,386. This has strengthened its trend of steady decline. India has also sustained its high number of recoveries. The total recovered cases stand at 73,73,375. India continues to be the topmost country with the maximum number of recovered cases globally. The difference between active cases and recovered cases is consistently increasing and stands at 6,778,989 on Friday,” said the release.
The Ministry added that 57,386 patients had recovered and had been discharged in the last 24 hours whereas the new confirmed cases are 48,648. The national recovery rate has progressed to 91.15%. Of the new recovered cases, 80% are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs .
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