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India's COVID-19 active cases now comprises only 2.8% of total caseload

New Delhi
December 24, 2020

The ongoing trend of contraction in India's COVID-19 active infections has led to shrinking of the share of active cases in the total caseload to 2.8 %, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

The tally of active case of the disease in the country stands at 2,83,849 as on date. "A net decline of 5,391 cases from the total active caseload was registered in the last 24 hours," the ministry said. Daily recoveries have outnumbered the daily new cases after nearly a month (27 days), it said.

"In a span of 24 hours, only 24,712 persons were found to be COVID positive in the country. During the same period 29,791 new recoveries were registered ensuring drop in the active caseload," the ministry stated.

"India has recorded less than 30,000 daily new cases continuously since the last 11 days," it said. Total recoveries are nearing 97 lakhs (96,93,173). The ministry said that 79.56 % of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 states and union territories.