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137 Covid deaths in 24 hours
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 1/28/2021 10:31:19 AM
NEW DELHI, Jan 27: India on Wednesday recorded 137 deaths due to the Covid-19 virus, the lowest in eight months, with Maharashtra topping 47 mortalities, followed by 19 in Kerala, 14 in Chhattisgarh, 9 in West Bengal and 8 in Uttar Pradesh, while over 2 million were given the vaccine till Wednesday morning.
The country's death toll at 1.54 lakh is among the lowest in the world, while the caseload of the active cases is down to 1.76 lakh. The recovery rate also went up to 96.91% as a total of 103.59 lakh have recovered, 13,320 in the past 24 hours, which is still more than 11,689 detected with the positive symptoms in 5.50 lakh tests carried out in the last one day.
So far, 19.36 crore people have been tested in the country for the virus as 106.89 lakh confirmed cases have been detected.
Globally, the confirmed cases of the virus rose to 9.94 crore, with 21.36 lakh deaths, 10,413 of them in the past 24 hours, as per the data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO).