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Coronavirus India Latest Updates: Active Cases At Lowest Level In Over 6 Months

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An employee wearing a face mask has his temperature checked on arrival at the at the HCL Technologies Ltd. Jigani campus stands in Bengaluru, India. (Photographer: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg)
An employee wearing a face mask has his temperature checked on arrival at the at the HCL Technologies Ltd. Jigani campus stands in Bengaluru, India. (Photographer: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg)

India's Covid-19 trajectory continued to decline with active cases falling to their lowest in over six months.

As many as 24,354 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry’s update as of 8 a.m. on Oct. 2. The country reported 25,455 recoveries and 234 deaths in the same period.

Active cases were at 2.73 lakh—the lowest in 197 days. They currently account for 0.8% of the total cases.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,37,91,061

  • Total number of active cases: 2,73,889

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,30,68,599

  • Total deaths: 4,48,573

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 24,354

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 25,455

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 234

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 89,72,61,764

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 69,15,441

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