DATA STORY: Global active Covid cases top 11 mn, India count below 600,000

The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (3.14%), Maharashtra (2.62%), and Gujarat (2.17%). The rate in as many as 12 is higher than the national average

While active coronavirus cases worldwide exceeded the 11-million mark on Friday, the count of such cases in India came below 600,000. At 594,386, the number of active cases in the country at present is the lowest since August 5 and 42 per cent lower than the September 18 peak of 1,017,754. With 57,386 new cured cases in a day, the country’s recovered cases reached 7,373,375, or 91.15 per cent of all confirmed cases so far.
 
The total number of confirmed cororonavirus cases in India now stands at 8,088,851, including 48,648 reported on Friday. The 563 fatalities across the country