New Delhi: India has reported 43,733 new Covid-19 cases and 930 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Health Ministry. As the country continues to show decline in daily cases, active cases have come down to 4,59,920. The country has witnessed a total of total of 4,04,211 deaths so far.
Kerala is the only state to report over 10k cases with 14,373 new cases being reported in the last 24-hoiur. Meanwhile, Maharashtra, the worst hit state by the pandemic, reported 8,418 cases and 400 deaths in the last 24 hours.
A total of 47,240 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total discharge to 2,97,99,534 till date, the Union Health Ministry said.
As many as , 42,33,32,097 samples have been tested up to July 6 for Covid-19. Of these 19,07,216 samples were tested on Tuesday.
The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday updated that 73 districts in India reported a positivity rate of over 10 per cent for the June 29-July 5 week.
India’s Covid-19 vaccination crossed 36 crore landmark on Tuesday with 36,05,998 people being administered vaccines in the last 24 hours.
Sixty one per cent of these high-positivity districts are from the Northeast states of Arunachal (Pradesh (18), Manipur (9), Meghalaya (6), Tripura (4), Sikkim (4), Nagaland (3), and Mizoram (1). In the region, Manipur (5,974) has the highest active cases followed by Meghalaya (4,354), Tripura (3,962), Mizoram (3,730), Sikkim (1,869) and Nagaland (1192).
