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India registers 16,862 new Covid cases, 379 deaths; active caseload declines by 2,908

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 10/16/2021 2:10:05 PM

New Delhi, Oct 15 India registered 16,862 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, 11.2 per cent lower than the number reported on Thursday. With fresh cases, the country's overall caseload has mounted to 3,40,37,592, showed the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare early Friday. The top five states which registered the maximum number of Covid-19 cases are Kerala with 9,246 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 2,384 cases, Tamil Nadu with 1,259 cases, Mizoram with 901 cases, Andhra Pradesh with 540 cases. As many as 84.98 per cent of the new cases were reported from these five states, with Kerala alone responsible for 54.83 per cent of the new cases. Meanwhile, 379 more people succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, pushing the country's toll to 4,51,814. The maximum casualties were reported in Haryana (174), followed by Kerala with 96 daily deaths. The last time it was higher than this was 23 days ago, on September 22, when India reported 383 deaths. As of Friday morning, India's recovery rate stands at 98.07 per cent even as a total of 19,391 patients recovered from the Covid-19 infection in the last 24 hours. Also, India's active caseload declined by 2,908 in the last 24 hours. The overall active cases tally stands at 2,03,678. India.