New Delhi, March 9 : There has been a substantial drop in new Covid cases and fatalities reported on Tuesday. India logged a single-day rise of 15,388 new cases in the last 24 hours.
With this the overall tally touched 1,12,44,786; and 77 new deaths mounted the toll to 1,57,930, the Union Health Ministry said.
There was a dip of 3,211 cases among fresh infections reported over 24 hours. The country had reported 18,599 cases and 97 deaths on Monday.
The rate of active cases has also not shown a rise and has remained stagnant over the last 24 hours. It was the active cases which had been on a gradual rise for the last many days.
The rate of active cases increased by 1.3 per cent in the last five days pushing the current rate to 1.68 per cent on Monday from 1.55 recorded on March 4.
As per the Ministry’s data, there are 1,87,462 active cases at present after 16,596 patients were discharged in a day.
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