India announced 4,100 Covid-19 deaths on Saturday after Maharashtra and Kerala revised their official death tolls.
Maharashtra added 4,005 fatalities while Kerala added 79 backlog deaths. Maharashtra reported a high death toll because of the inclusion of non-Covid fatalities reported till Friday. The state reported two fresh deaths caused by the viral disease in the last 24 hours, according to news agency.
The country reported as many as 1,660 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry’s update at 8 a.m. on March 26. That compares with nearly 2,349 recoveries during the period.
India’s active caseload has declined to 16,741, constituting 0.04% of the country’s total positive cases. The nation’s daily positivity rate stood at 0.25% and weekly positivity rate at 0.29%.