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- According to ICMR, 88,18,73,052 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till August 18
- Active COVID-19 caseload registers an increase of 487 cases in a 24-hour period
- The daily positivity rate due to COVID was recorded at 3.47 per cent on August 19
COVID-19 cases in India: 15,754 new cases of Novel Coronavirus have been registered in India in the last 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Friday (August 19), the overall recovery rate reached around 98.58 per cent and the total recovery figure reached 4,36,85,535.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India has come down to 1,01,830, data from the Ministry of Health showed today. The active cases registered yesterday stood at 1,01,343.
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The active COVID-19 caseload has registered an increase of 487 cases in a 24-hour period. The ministry said that active cases comprise 0.23 per cent of the total infections.
The total death toll in the country now stands at 5,27,253. In India, the first death due to the COVID pandemic was reported in March 2020.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 3.47 per cent on August 19.
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According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 88,18,73,052 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till August 18. Of these, 4,54,491 samples were tested on Thursday.
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Delhi rising COVID tally,
Delhi reported 1,964 new cases of coronavirus and eight deaths, according to data provided by the city’s health department. The national capital’s Covid-19 test positivity rate was recorded at 9.42 per cent.
With this, Delhi’s caseload rose to 19,90,355 and the death toll rose to 26,408, as per the latest bulletin. The fresh cases were reported out of 20,844 tests, the bulletin said.
Eight fatalities and 1,652 cases were reported on Wednesday with a positivity rate of 9.92 per cent. After more than a fortnight, it had come down to below 10 per cent.
The capital had reported 917 Covid cases on Tuesday with a positivity rate of 19.20 per cent and three deaths due to the infection.
| serial number | Name of State/Union Territory | active case | OK / Discharge / Migrate | deaths | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gross | change from yesterday | cumulative | change from yesterday | cumulative | |||||||
| death during the day | |||||||||||
| 1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 32 | 7 | 10380 | 1 | 129 | |||||
| 2 | Andra Pradesh | 1110 | 12 | 2319611 | 195 | 14733 | |||||
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 143 | 1 | 66070 | 28 | 296 | |||||
| 4 | Assam | 2957 | 19 | 732356 | 138 | 8028 | |||||
| 5 | A state in Eastern India | 761 | 1 1 | 833280 | 146 | 12288 | 1 | ||||
| 6 | Chandigarh | 517 | 3 | 96529 | 84 | 1177 | |||||
| 7 | Chattisgarh | 1725 | 195 | 1155983 | 123 | 14094 | 1 | ||||
| 8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 7 | 1 | 11558 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| 9 | Delhi | 6826 | 17 | 1957121 | 1939 | 26408 | 8 | ||||
| 10 | Goa* | 1041 | 64 | 249633 | 115 | 3857 | 1 | ||||
| 1 1 | Gujarat | 3012 | 185 | 1252910 | 552 | 10996 | |||||
| 12 | Haryana | 3751 | 43 | 1031190 | 908 | 10662 | 2 | ||||
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 2319 | 88 | 302438 | 299 | 4187 | 1 | ||||
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 3327 | 139 | 467003 | 558 | 4779 | |||||
| 15 | Jharkhand | 412 | 1 | 435826 | 69 | 5330 | |||||
| 16 | Karnataka | 9307 | 543 | 3987317 | 1782 | 40201 | 4 | ||||
| 17 | Kerala*** | 7920 | 43 | 6662540 | 1273 | 70688 | 1 | ||||
| 18 | Ladakh | 71 | 1 | 28822 | 8 | 229 | |||||
| 19 | Lakshadweep | 0 | 11363 | 52 | |||||||
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh | 699 | 1 | 1041095 | 107 | 10764 | |||||
| 21 | Maharashtra | 11690 | 320 | 7918535 | 1920 | 148186 | 6 | ||||
| 22 | Manipur | 112 | 44 | 137320 | 56 | 2143 | |||||
| 23 | Meghalaya | 463 | 1 | 94188 | 25 | 1613 | |||||
| 24 | Mizoram | 766 | 16 | 234357 | 142 | 717 | |||||
| 25 | Nagaland | 23 | 7 | 35084 | 7 | 776 | |||||
| 26 | Orissa | 2460 | 21 | 1312449 | 502 | 9160 | 1 | ||||
| 27 | Puducherry | 364 | 2 | 169939 | 78 | 1967 | |||||
| 28 | Punjab** | 15545 | 361 | 747101 | 17872 | 3 | |||||
| 29 | Rajasthan Rajasthan | 4065 | 121 | 1289753 | 679 | 9601 | 3 | ||||
| 30 | Sikkim | 242 | 42526 | 65 | 482 | 1 | |||||
| 31 | Tamil Nadu | 6400 | 231 | 3517020 | 874 | 38033 | |||||
| 32 | Telangana | 2820 | 177 | 823884 | 612 | 4111 | |||||
| 33 | Tripura | 117 | 39 | 106591 | 49 | 938 | |||||
| 34 | Uttarakhand | 1778 | 43 | 437397 | 131 | 7731 | 1 | ||||
| 35 | Uttar Pradesh | 4578 | 274 | 20888505 | 1167 | 23591 | 2 | ||||
| 36 | West Bengal | 4470 | 154 | 2077861 | 587 | 21430 | 3 | ||||
| gross# | 101830 | 487 | 43685535 | 15220 | 527253 | 39 | |||||
| ***Kerala: Additionally, 08 deaths are tallied by state (as per ICMR guidelines) | |||||||||||
| **Punjab: The reconciliation of death is being done on behalf of the state. Further details are awaited. | |||||||||||
| *Goa: The work of death reconciliation is being done by the state. Further details are awaited. | |||||||||||