India registers declining trends in number of active COVID cases

Amid the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, India is registering declining trends in the number of active COVID cases. However, several states and Union Territories are still registering a high number of cases.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry today said that the active cases comprise 15.86 per cent of the cumulative positive cases. It said, there are over thirty seven lakh active cases in the country at present.

As the country is registering over three lakh recoveries daily from the past many days, the recovery rate has further improved to 83.04 per cent. The Health Ministry has said over three lakh 55 thousand patients have recovered from this infectious disease within 24 hours. So far, over one crore 93 lakh patients have already recovered from this disease.