Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

A significant achievement in India's Covid19 trajectory- Active Caseload slips below 2 Lakhs after 6 Months and 24Days

India registers one of the lowest daily new confirmed COVID19 cases per million population in the last 7 days

A total of 6,74,835 beneficiaries vaccinated

2,20,786 people vaccinated across 3,860 sessions in the last 24 hours

Posted On: 20 JAN 2021 12:34PM by PIB Delhi

India accomplished a significant achievement today. The total Active Caseload has fallen below the 2-lakh mark today to 1,97,201. This number translates to just 1.86%of total cases. This is the lowest after 207 days. The total active cases were 1,97,387 on 27thJune, 2020.

16,988 cases have recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours. This has led to a net decline of 3327 from the total active caseload.

72% of these active cases are concentrated in just 5 States.

34 States and UTs have less than 10,000 active cases.                      

 

India’s daily new cases are on a steady decline which has also contributed to the shrinkage in Active Caseload.

Globally, India has one of the lowest daily new confirmed COVID19 cases per million population in the last 7 days.

As on 20th January, 2021, till 7 AM, a total of 6,74,835 beneficiaries have received the vaccination. In the last 24 hours, 2,20,786 people were vaccinated across 3,860 sessions. 11,720 sessions has been conducted so far.

S. No.

State/UT

Beneficiaries vaccinated

1

A & N Islands

644

2

Andhra Pradesh

65,597

3

Arunachal Pradesh

2,805

4

Assam

7,585

5

Bihar

47,395

6

Chandigarh

469

7

Chhattisgarh

10,872

8

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

125

9

Daman & Diu

94

10

Delhi

12,902

11

Goa

426

12

Gujarat

21,832

13

Haryana

28,771

14

Himachal Pradesh

5,049

15

Jammu & Kashmir

4,414

16

Jharkhand

8,808

17

Karnataka

82,975

18

Kerala

24,007

19

Ladakh

119

20

Lakshadweep

369

21

Madhya Pradesh

18,174

22

Maharashtra

33,484

23

Manipur

1111

24

Meghalaya

1037

25

Mizoram

1091

26

Nagaland

2,360

27

Odisha

60,797

28

Puducherry

759

29

Punjab

5,567

30

Rajasthan

32,379

31

Sikkim

358

32

Tamil Nadu

25,908

33

Telangana

69,405

34

Tripura

3,734

35

Uttar Pradesh

22,644

36

Uttarakhand

6,119

37

West Bengal

43,559

38

Miscellaneous

21,091

 

Total

6,74,835

 

The Total Recovered Cases stand at 1.02 cr (10,245,741).

The total recovered cases have crossed the Active caseload by one crore a few days ago. The gap presently stands at 10,048,540 today. The Recovery Rate has improved to 96.70% today. This difference is continuously growing as the recoveries outpace the daily new cases.

80.43% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.

Maharashtrahas reported the maximum number of single day recoveries with 4,516 newly recovered cases. 4,296 people recovered in Kerala followed by 807 in Karnataka.

79.2% of the new cases are concentrated in seven States and UTs.

Kerala reported the highest daily new cases at 6,186. It is followed by Maharashtra with 2,294 new cases.

There is also a steady decline in the number of daily fatalities which stands at 162 today.

 

Six States/UTs account for 71.6%of new deaths.

Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (50). Kerala and West Bengal follow with 26 and 11 daily deaths, respectively.

                                                                                                                                               

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MV/SJ
HFW/COVID States data/20th January 2021/1



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