India’s COVID-19 case fatality rate slides to 1.14 per cent

NEW DELHI: The national COVID-19 mortality rate has dropped and currently stands at 1.14 percent, the union health ministry informed on Saturday. The death toll stood at 1,66,10,481 with 2,624 fatalities reported in 24 hours out of which Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (773) followed by Delhi with 348 daily deaths.

According to the health ministry, ten states account for 82.28 percent of the new deaths in the country. Meanwhile, Ladakh (UT), Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Lakshadweep, Sikkim, Manipur, Nagaland, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Arunachal Pradesh have not reported any COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours.