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India logs 795 new COVID cases, 58 fatalities; active cases decline to 12,054

April 5, 2022
Bharat Times

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Highlights

  • A total of 1,208 recoveries were recorded in the past 24 hours
  • The death toll due to coronavirus in India is now at 5,21,416
  • The daily positivity rate was at 0.17 per cent, data updated on Tuesday showed

India recorded 795 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the data uploaded on Tuesday showed. With this, the number of active cases in the country have now declined to 12,054. India also recorded 58 deaths due to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, pushing the total death toll in the country to 5,21,416.

The number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 has now surged to 4,24,96,369, with 1,280 people being discharged in the past 24 hours.

The active case count accounts for 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

India recorded less than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in 715 days on Monday.

India’s COVID-19 tally had surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19, 2020. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore coronavirus cases on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year.

The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.29 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 0.22 per cent, according to the Health Ministry.

A total of 1,84,87,33,081 vaccines have so far been administered against COVID-19.

The Health Ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

“Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),” the ministry said on its website, adding that state-wise distribution of figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation.

S. No. Name of State / UT Active Cases* Cured/Discharged/Migrated* Deaths**
Total Change since yesterday Cumulative Change since yesterday Cumulative Change since yesterday
Death During Day

(a)

 Death Reconciled
(b)		 Total (a+b)
1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 0 9904 129
2 Andhra Pradesh 119 31 2304729 32 14730
3 Arunachal Pradesh 2 64188 296
4 Assam 1348 716209 6639
5 Bihar 17 1 818204 2 12256
6 Chandigarh 18 90746 1 1165
7 Chhattisgarh 88 3 1138048 15 14034
8 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 0 11437 4
9 Delhi 468 14 1838760 95 26154 1 1
10 Goa 41 2 241452 2 3832
11 Gujarat 67 3 1212932 6 10942
12 Haryana 265 6 974528 53 10617
13 Himachal Pradesh 91 1 280354 13 4133
14 Jammu and Kashmir 162 5 448903 7 4750
15 Jharkhand 33 5 429805 6 5315
16 Karnataka 1542 15 3904101 52 40055 1 1
17 Kerala*** 3339 178 6462529 378 68130 56 56
18 Ladakh 5 2 27992 2 228
19 Lakshadweep 0 11350 52
20 Madhya Pradesh 93 12 1030329 15 10735
21 Maharashtra 866 55 7725791 107 147789
22 Manipur 45 4 134961 3 2120
23 Meghalaya 12 92165 1 1593
24 Mizoram 951 27 223325 202 687
25 Nagaland 10 3 34708 3 759
26 Odisha 299 84 1278322 89 9121
27 Puducherry 0 163812 1962
28 Punjab 91 6 741320 11 17741
29 Rajasthan 130 25 1273360 33 9552
30 Sikkim 5 1 38684 3 452
31 Tamil Nadu 263 12 3414643 33 38025
32 Telangana 271 19 786963 36 4111
33 Tripura 3 99953 921
34 Uttarakhand 483 6 429095 11 7692
35 Uttar Pradesh 371 11 2047015 27 23496
36 West Bengal 556 30 1995752 42 21199
Total# 12054 543 42496369 1280 521416 2 56 58

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