Lowest Covid cases in 72 days, nearly 4,000 deaths in 24 hours

India on Monday saw another dip in daily Covid-19 cases with a spike of 70,000 new cases in 24 hours. The spike of 70,421 cases is the lowest in 72 days.

Total Covid caseload of the country now stands as 2.95 crore, according to the health ministry dashboard on Monday morning.

Daily deaths due to Covid, however, have remained high with nearly 4,000 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours. Total deaths due to the virus have now gone up to 3.74 lakh.

Nearly 1.2 lakh people were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative figure of recoveries in the country to over 2.8 crore. This is the 32nd day where the daily recoveries continued to outnumber the new cases.

The active cases, meanwhile, have declined to under 10 lakh and constitute 3.5% per cent of the caseload.

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