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Tuesday, 19 March 2024 4.32 PM IST

Half of Covid cases in country are from Kerala; India adds 39,742 new cases, 535 deaths

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NEW DELHI: India saw a single day rise of 39,742 coronavirus infections taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,13,71,901, while the death toll rose to 4,20,551 with 535 fresh fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. About half of these cases are from Kerala. The report of the Union Ministry of Health said 46.63 cases are from Kerala.

The active cases have declined to 4,08,212 and comprise 1.30 per cent of the total infections and the national Covid-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 97.36 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.


A decline of 765 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.


India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.

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