Covid-19 update: With 46,790 cases, India reports its lowest daily count in three months

India saw a sharp decline in covid-19 cases as it reported 46,790 cases in last 24-hour which is country's lowest in 90 days. The total tally has reached close to 7.6 million with fresh news addition. With 757 fatalities in last 24 hours, the total death toll has reached 1,15,197.

Of the 75,97,063 cases, 7,48, 538 cases are still active, while recoveries stand at 66,33,328. The growth rate of country's covid cases has seen a drop of 50 per cent since September 18.

The Health Ministry in a tweet said that the trend in daily cases has seen decline as the 5 most affected states also show decline.

The Health Ministry on Monday said that India's cumulative COVID-19 positivity rate has remained below 8 per cent for four days.

Here're more updates related to the covid-19:

*US Covid-19 deaths crossed 220,000 mark, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

*At least half of India’s population are likely to have been infected with the coronavirus by next February, the panel appointed by government said.

*Pakistan PM Imran Khan has expressed concern over possible second wave of covid-19 in the country.

*Argentina has become world's 5th country to surpass one million covid-19 infections.

*A research led by Oxford University's scientists has said that patients can have covid-19 symptoms for months.

*The United Kingdom will conduct an hour long rapid tests at airports from Tuesday. The people will negative report will be allowed to skip quarantine period.

*No Durga Puja Pandals will be allowed to set up in Delhi's CR Park this year. The puja in the main temple will be held with the entry of 50 people, AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj said.

*International Monetary Fund has said that nearly all Mideast economies have been hit by pandemic recession. It also underlined that Lebanon and Oman are expected to see some growth by next year.

Meanwhile, the overall number of global coronavirus cases have surpassed 40 million mark on Monday. The tally currently stands at 40.3 million while fatalities climb has reached 1,117,430, Johns Hopkins University said in its latest update.

The University's CSSE said that as of Tuesday morning, the total number of covid-19 cases stood at 40,333,146.