At 13,058, India logs lowest single-day COVID case rise in 231 days; 164 deaths reported
India logged 13,058 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 231 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,40,94,373, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 4,52,454 with 164 fresh fatalities, while the active cases have declined to 1,83,118, the lowest in 227 days, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 25 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 114 consecutive days now.
The active cases comprise 0.54 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.14 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.
A decrease of 6,576 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.
| S. No. | Name of State / UT | Active Cases* | Cured/Discharged/Migrated* | Deaths** | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Change since yesterday | Cumulative | Change since yesterday | Cumulative | Change since yesterday | ||
| 1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 7 | 2 | 7506 | 3 | 129 | |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 5709 | 325 | 2040782 | 651 | 14313 | 6 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 145 | 5 | 54589 | 22 | 280 | |
| 4 | Assam | 3461 | 25 | 597348 | 266 | 5957 | 7 |
| 5 | Bihar | 44 | 4 | 716323 | 6 | 9661 | |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 24 | 1 | 64462 | 5 | 820 | |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 189 | 6 | 991922 | 21 | 13570 | |
| 8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 4 | 10668 | 4 | |||
| 9 | Delhi | 298 | 22 | 1414018 | 37 | 25089 | |
| 10 | Goa | 600 | 4 | 173629 | 57 | 3350 | 4 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 193 | 14 | 816029 | 32 | 10086 | |
| 12 | Haryana | 126 | 3 | 760917 | 13 | 10049 | |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 1270 | 33 | 216609 | 195 | 3725 | 5 |
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 816 | 27 | 325893 | 100 | 4428 | 2 |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 125 | 3 | 343184 | 11 | 5135 | |
| 16 | Karnataka | 9193 | 286 | 2936527 | 488 | 37953 | 12 |
| 17 | Kerala | 83779 | 4407 | 4750293 | 11023 | 26925 | 60 |
| 18 | Ladakh | 34 | 2 | 20639 | 5 | 208 | |
| 19 | Lakshadweep | 0 | 10314 | 51 | |||
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh | 81 | 3 | 782086 | 9 | 10523 | |
| 21 | Maharashtra | 31610 | 620 | 6421756 | 2078 | 139816 | 27 |
| 22 | Manipur | 1383 | 39 | 119524 | 106 | 1897 | |
| 23 | Meghalaya | 777 | 68 | 80799 | 126 | 1438 | 3 |
| 24 | Mizoram | 11374 | 259 | 102036 | 1207 | 391 | 5 |
| 25 | Nagaland | 252 | 4 | 30700 | 11 | 675 | 1 |
| 26 | Odisha | 4347 | 195 | 1022780 | 530 | 8290 | 5 |
| 27 | Puducherry | 523 | 62 | 125051 | 90 | 1850 | |
| 28 | Punjab | 219 | 8 | 585296 | 32 | 16544 | |
| 29 | Rajasthan | 43 | 1 | 945395 | 1 | 8954 | |
| 30 | Sikkim | 165 | 9 | 31200 | 16 | 391 | |
| 31 | Tamil Nadu | 14570 | 244 | 2637802 | 1423 | 35912 | 13 |
| 32 | Telangana | 3929 | 5 | 661294 | 201 | 3940 | 2 |
| 33 | Tripura | 113 | 9 | 83414 | 13 | 816 | |
| 34 | Uttarakhand | 176 | 2 | 336186 | 5 | 7397 | |
| 35 | Uttar Pradesh | 123 | 4 | 1687015 | 4 | 22898 | |
| 36 | West Bengal | 7416 | 5 | 1554815 | 683 | 18989 | 12 |
| Total# | 183118 | 6576 | 33458801 | 19470 | 452454 | 164 | |
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