Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

India’s records lowest Daily New Cases in 7 months; 10,064 found positive in the last 24 hours

Total Number of people vaccinated is MORE THAN DOUBLE the number of Active Cases

Posted On: 19 JAN 2021 11:29AM by PIB Delhi

India has crossed a crucial milestone in its fight against the global pandemic. The daily new cases have touched a new low today.

10,064 daily new cases were added to the national tally in the last 24 hours after seven months. The daily new cases were 10,956 on 12th June, 2020.

India’s total Active Caseload has dropped to 2 lakh (2,00,528) today.

India’s present active caseload now consists of just 1.90% of India’s total Positive Cases.

The fall in the number of daily new cases is accompanied by a fast rising number of people getting vaccinated against COVID19 across all States and UTs. The total number of people vaccinated is MORE THAN DOUBLE the number of Active Cases.

 

 

In the last 24 hours, 2,23,669 people were vaccinated across 3,930 sessions taking the cumulative total of people vaccinated to 4,54,049 (across 7,860 sessions conducted so far).

 

State wise breakup of the beneficiaries is as follows:

 

S. No.

State/UT

Beneficiaries vaccinated

1

A & N Islands

442

2

Andhra Pradesh

46,680

3

Arunachal Pradesh

2,805

4

Assam

5,542

5

Bihar

33,389

6

Chandigarh

265

7

Chhattisgarh

10,872

8

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

80

9

Daman & Diu

43

10

Delhi

7,968

11

Goa

426

12

Gujarat

10,787

13

Haryana

17,642

14

Himachal Pradesh

4,817

15

Jammu & Kashmir

3,375

16

Jharkhand

6,059

17

Karnataka

66,392

18

Kerala

15,477

19

Ladakh

119

20

Lakshadweep

201

21

Madhya Pradesh

18,174

22

Maharashtra

18,582

23

Manipur

978

24

Meghalaya

530

25

Mizoram

554

26

Nagaland

1,436

27

Odisha

46,506

28

Puducherry

554

29

Punjab

3,318

30

Rajasthan

23,546

31

Sikkim

120

32

Tamil Nadu

16,462

33

Telangana

17,408

34

Tripura

1,736

35

Uttar Pradesh

22,644

36

Uttarakhand

4,237

37

West Bengal

29,866

38

Miscellaneous

14,017

 

 

Positivity rate has also seen a deep dip with the increase in number of testing infrastructure.

India’s weekly positivity rate is 1.97%.

22 States/UTs have weekly positivity rate less than the national average.

 

13 States/UTs have weekly positivity rate more than the national average.

The country has recorded less than 140 fatalities (137 fatalities) in the last 24 hours after approximately 8 months.

India’s Recovery Rate has leaped past 96.66% today. The total number of recoveries has touched 1,02,28,753 while the number of Active Cases in the country stands at 2,08,012 today.

17,411 recoveries have been registered in the last 24 hours in the country.

80.41% of the new recovered cases are observed fromTen States/UTs.

Kerala has reported the highest number of recoveries with 3,921 newly recovered cases in single day. 3,854 people recovered in Maharashtra in the past 24 hours followed by 1,301 inChhattisgarh.

71.76% of the new cases are from Six States and UTs.

Kerala continues to report the highest number of daily new cases at 3,346. It is followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with 1,924 and 551 new cases, respectively.

Eight States & UTs has reported 72.99% of the total fatalities happened in the last 24 hours.

Maharashtra has reported 35 deaths. Kerala also saw a fatality count of 17 while West Bengal reported 10 new deaths.

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MV
HFW/COVID States data/19th January 2021/1



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