NEW DELHI: India recorded 16,135 new covid cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the active caseload to 1,13,864, as per data released by the Union health ministry on Monday.
Fatalities stood at 24. The national capital's active cases stand at 3,268, while Maharashtra has 22,485 cases, Haryana has 2,475 cases, and Kerala's stand at 29,527.
Tamil Nadu has 14,504 active cases and Karnataka 6,666 as of now. The surge in cases has pushed India's daily positivity rate to 4.85% while the weekly positivity rate is at 3.74%.
In the last 24 hours, about 13,958 patients recovered from covid. Since the onset of the pandemic, India has reported 4,28,79,477 recoveries.