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Photos: India’s daily Covid-19 cases remain below 40,000 for a week
The Covid-19 active caseload in India has dipped to 4.03 lakh, the lowest in138 days, comprising 4.18% of the total coronavirus infections reported so far in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on December 6. The total active cases were 4,02,529 on July 21. Continuing with the trend of the last nine days, India has reported more daily recoveries than daily new cases in a span of 24 hours. While 36,011 people in India were found to be infected with Covid-19 in a span of 24 hours, 41,970 new recoveries were registered during the same period. The total coronavirus cases have mounted to 96,44,222, while the death toll has crossed 1.40 lakh.
Updated on: Dec 06, 2020 6:04 PM IST
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Police personnel patrol Chaitya Bhumi, at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on December 6. The number of Covid-19 cases in India rose to 96,44,222 with 36,011 new infections being reported in the last 24 hours and the death toll crossed to 140,000 after 482 new fatalities in the same period, data from the Union health ministry showed on December 6. (Kunal Patil / PTI)
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Officials wearing PPE kits make arrangements for Covid-19 patients for their special postal voting in forthcoming local body elections, in Kochi on December 5. The number of people who have recovered from the disease rose to 91,00,792 and the Covid-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.45%. There are 403,248 active Covid-19 cases in the country now , which is the lowest in over four months. (PTI)
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A woman looks at a BMC medical staff conducting a rapid antigen based Covid-19 test in Mumbai on December 5. The Health ministry has said that for the past eight days, the daily new recoveries recorded in the country have been more than the daily cases. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)
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People commuting amid low visibility due to fog in Nadia district on December 4. New cases per million population in India in the last seven days are 186. This is one of the lowest in the world, PTI reported citing the Health ministry. The daily registered deaths per million population during the past week when compared globally demonstrate that India has one of the lowest at 3 deaths/million population. (PTI)
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Farmers pack paddy crop after harvest in Alappuzha, Kerala on December 5. Of the new recovered cases in the previous 24 hours,76.6% are observed to be concentrated in 10 states and UTs. Simultaneously, of the new infections, 75.70% are from 10 states and UTs, the ministry said. (R S Iyer / AP)
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Children in a slum area attend a community class, organised by a local NGO in Jammu on December 6. “The trend of more daily recoveries than the daily cases has led to a continuous contraction of India’s Covid-19 active caseload which presently consists of just 4.18% of the total cases,” the Health ministry said in a statement. (PTI)
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A health care worker collects swab sample from a Bank of India staff for Covid-19 test in Mumbai on December 4. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 14,69,86,575 samples have been tested up to December 5 with 11,01,063 samples being tested within the previous 24 hours. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)
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