Covid active cases in India fell below 2 lakh on Saturday for the first time in 218 days since the early days of the second wave.
The day after the celebration of Dussehra and Vijayadashami, India reported 14,060 new cases such as those who opposed the 19.286 recovery (with Jharkhand numbers not available until midnight).
Council of active cases in India, which reached 2,01,632 on Saturday morning in accordance with the website of the UNI Ministry of Health, has dropped to more than 1.9 lakh by late at night.
This is the first time since March 12 this year – the early days of the second wave – that the active case count has dipped under two lakh marks.
After the first wave, the active case had dropped to a low of 1.3 lakh on 12 February before touching the peak of 36.8 lakh on May 14.
Meanwhile, there were 146 deaths from the virus reported from all countries on Saturday, the lowest toll daily since March 15 this year.
At 1,553, Maharashtra reported the lowest number of daily cases in 17 months.
It last recorded a lower calculation of everyday case on May 13, 2020, when 1,495 new cases were detected.
Kerala sees 7,955 new cases, with a daily test of the daily test fell below 10%, to 9.9% on Saturday.
Bengal recorded 443 new cases on Saturday while the Odisha calculation was 358.