India reports less than 1 lakh new COVID-19 cases after 63 days

India on Tuesday registered 86,498 fresh Covid-19 cases, the lowest in over two months, pushing the country's recovery rate to 94.29 per cent. India has reported the lowest Covid cases in 66 days, and less than one lakh Covid cases after 63 days.

India's active caseload has further declined to 13,03,702, a decrease of 97,907 in the past 24 hours. After over 1.82 lakh patients' recovery in the past 24 hours, the total recoveries have climbed to 2,73,41,462.

Notably, the recoveries have continued to outnumber the daily Covid cases for the 26th consecutive day. While the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 5.94 per cent, the daily positivity rate has dropped to 4.62 per cent, less than 10 per cent for 15 consecutive days.

India also saw 2,123 deaths in the past 24 hours, as per the Union health ministry, taking the death toll in the country to 3,51,309. The testing capacity has been substantially ramped up. A total of 18,73,485 samples were tested in the past 24 hours.

The maximum number of casualties were reported in Tamil Nadu (351), followed by Karnataka with 340 daily deaths.

The top five states that have registered the maximum Covid cases in the past 24 hours are Tamil Nadu with 19,448 cases, followed by Karnataka with 11,958 cases, Maharashtra with 10,219 cases, Kerala with 9,313 cases and Odisha with 6,118 cases.

65.95 per cent of the new Covid cases were reported from these five states, with Tamil Nadu alone responsible for 22.48 per cent of the new cases.