Coronavirus pandemic: India reports 10,273 new cases with positivity rate at 1.00%; 243 deaths.
Highlight
- Total active cases of COVID in India has come down to 1,11,472 today
- The total death toll in the country is now 5,13,724.
- The daily positivity rate is 1.00 per cent as on February 27
COVID-19 India News Updates: 10,273 new cases of Novel Coronavirus have been registered in India along with 243 deaths due to infection in the last 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Sunday (February 27), there were a total of 20,439 discharges in the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate to around 98.54 percent and the total recovery data reaching 4,22. ,90,921.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India has come down to 1,11,472 (0.26%), data from the ministry showed today.
The total death toll in the country now stands at 5,13,724. In India, the first death due to the COVID pandemic was reported in March 2020.
The daily positivity rate is 1.00 percent today.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 76,67,57,518 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till February 26. Of these, 10,22,204 samples were tested on Saturday.
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Meanwhile, Delhi reported 440 fresh Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Friday, according to the data released by the health department. With this, the number of cases in the national capital rose to 18,59,054 and the death toll to 26,119, said the latest health bulletin. The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day earlier stood at 53,173.
Delhi had reported 460 cases on Friday with a positivity rate of 0.81 per cent and two deaths. On Thursday, it had registered 556 cases with a positivity rate of 1.10 per cent and six deaths.
There has been a decline in the number of daily cases in Delhi after touching a record high of 28,867 on January 13. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic.
| serial number | Name of State/UT | Active Case* | OK/Discharge/Migrate* | Deaths** | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| complete | change from yesterday | cumulative | change from yesterday | cumulative | change from yesterday | ||||||
| death during the day
(a) |
settlement of death (b) |
Total (A+B) | |||||||||
| 1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 12 | 3 | 9875 | 3 | 129 | |||||
| 2 | Andra Pradesh | 3518 | 1191 | 2299362 | 1329 | 14725 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 165 | 13 | 63947 | 19 | 296 | |||||
| 4 | Assam | 1580 | 30 | 715881 | 41 | 6638 | |||||
| 5 | Bihar | 331 | 18 | 817417 | 68 | 12255 | |||||
| 6 | Chandigarh | 167 | 90380 | 24 | 1165 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 7 | Chattisgarh | 1887 | 74 | 1134777 | 223 | 14026 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 1 | 11433 | 4 | |||||||
| 9 | Delhi | 2063 | 22 | 1830872 | 460 | 26119 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 10 | Goa | 322 | 25 | 240859 | 68 | 3800 | |||||
| 1 1 | Gujarat | 2275 | 263 | 1209148 | 491 | 10926 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 12 | Haryana | 2218 | 92 | 968311 | 413 | 10555 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 1201 | 121 | 277866 | 229 | 4115 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 871 | 124 | 447282 | 208 | 4748 | |||||
| 15 | Jharkhand | 510 | 10 | 428512 | 76 | 5315 | |||||
| 16 | Karnataka | 6978 | 578 | 3893532 | 1073 | 39919 | 19 | 19 | |||
| 17 | Kerala*** | 33782 | 4258 | 6395737 | 7339 | 65161 | 65 | 116 | 181 | ||
| 18 | Ladakh | 207 | 23 | 27557 | 44 | 228 | |||||
| 19 | Lakshadweep | 10 | 4 | 11337 | 6 | 52 | |||||
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh | 4328 | 481 | 1023141 | 980 | 10727 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 21 | Maharashtra | 11806 | 876 | 7709015 | 1761 | 143695 | 8 | 8 | |||
| 22 | Manipur | 360 | 176 | 134258 | 212 | 2109 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 23 | Meghalaya | 189 | 22 | 91671 | 44 | 1577 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 24 | Mizoram | 7599 | 507 | 204864 | 1408 | 655 | |||||
| 25 | Nagaland | 128 | 1 1 | 34518 | 16 | 755 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 26 | Orissa | 3132 | 289 | 1272428 | 9056 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| 27 | Puducherry | 169 | 33 | 163570 | 42 | 1962 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 28 | Punjab | 787 | 61 | 739491 | 181 | 17702 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 29 | Rajasthan Rajasthan | 5542 | 197 | 1263926 | 845 | 9535 | |||||
| 30 | Sikkim | 62 | 16 | 38558 | 18 | 442 | |||||
| 31 | Tamil Nadu | 7164 | 986 | 3403402 | 1464 | 38002 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 32 | Telangana | 3539 | 271 | 780974 | 512 | 4111 | |||||
| 33 | Tripura | 33 | 9 | 99908 | 10 | 919 | |||||
| 34 | Uttarakhand | 2352 | 10 | 425977 | 86 | 7679 | |||||
| 35 | Uttar Pradesh | 4232 | 177 | 2039456 | 477 | 23450 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 36 | West Bengal | 1952 | 36 | 1991679 | 269 | 21172 | 3 | 3 | |||
| complete# | 111472 | 10409 | 42290921 | 20439 | 513724 | 127 | 116 | 243 | |||
| *** For Kerala as per State Media Bulletin: 65 deaths reported as on 26 February, +116 deaths announced as per Appeal of GO (RT) No. 2110/2021/H&FWD. | |||||||||||
| *(including foreign nationals) | |||||||||||
| **(more than 70% of cases due to comorbidities) | |||||||||||
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