India posted 1,429 new cases of COVID-19 since Friday. This brings the total number of those confirmed positive to 24,506 according to an update by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
At least 56 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the toll across the country to at least 779, according to the Union Health Ministry figures.
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The country’s death rate, according to the Ministry, was around 3.1% and the recovery rate more than 20%, which, it claimed, was “comparatively better” than most of the countries and could be attributed to the success of the lockdown as well as the containment strategy. The average doubling rate — the number of days taken for cases to double — of the country was 9.1 days.
Though fresh cases were reported from Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh among other places, the government said the daily growth rate has dipped to 6%.
Maharashtra tops the tally with more than 6,800 cases, followed by 3061 in Gujarat and 2034 in Rajasthan.
According to reports from State Health Departments, however,