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DATA STORY: At 579, Covid-19 deaths reported by India in a day lowest since July 14

With 66399 new daily recoveries, India's recovery rate has improved to 88.26%; the fatality rate remains unchanged at 1.52%

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Even as Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan agreed for the first time that there could be community transmission of coronavirus in some districts of India, Sunday brought a few pieces of good news for India on the pandemic front. First, the number of Covid-19 fatalities reported across the country during the day, at 579, was the lowest since July 14. And second, the count of active cases across India continued to decline, with recoveries outpacing new cases, by 11,256 to 772,055 – the lowest since August 30 and 24.2 per cent lower than the September 18 peak on 1,017,754.
 

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