Coronavirus India Latest Updates: New Cases Stay Below 20,000 For Second Day

Active Covid-19 cases in India dropped further to 2.82 lakh, as India reported less than 20,000 new cases for the second day in a row.

As many as 18,870 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours according to the Health Ministry’s update as of 8 a.m. on Sept. 29. That compares with the 28,178 recoveries recorded in the same period.

Active cases currently account for 0.84% of the total tally, the lowest since March last year.

Key Coronavirus Data

• Total confirmed cases: 3,37,16,451

• Total number of active cases: 2,82,520

• Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,29,86,180

• Total deaths: 4,47,751

• Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 18,870

• Number of recoveries in a day: 28,178

• Deaths recorded in a day: 378

• Total vaccine doses administered: 87,66,63,490

• Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 54,13,332

378 patients succumbed to the deadly pathogen in the last 24 hours, taking India's total death toll above 4.47 lakh.