India reported a drop in daily Covid-19 cases with 55,342 fresh infections and 706 deaths on Tuesday. The country has been showing a trend of declining average daily cases over the past five weeks.
As of now, India's Covid-19 caseload stands at 71.75, lakh, according to the Ministry of Health data. Active Covid-19 cases stand at 8,38,729, while 62,27,295 people have recovered so far.
"India continues to report a trend of steadily decreasing active cases. For the fourth day after the active cases dropped below the 9 lakh mark after a month, the decline continues," the ministry had said on Monday.
Maharashtra is still reporting a very high number of new cases with more than 10,000 cases followed by Karnataka and Kerala with more than 9,000 cases each.