Coronavirus Daily Update: COVID-19 cases explained in charts
India reported 20,035 COVID-19 new cases according to the official update, on January 1, 2021. New cases below 25,000 mark for 12th day in a row. Active cases in India continue to slide further with a fall of over 3,000 cases in a day. Recoveries above 98 lakh with a recovery rate of 96.1 percent.
January 01, 2021 / 11:22 IST
As many as 20,035 new coronavirus infections were reported in the last 24 hours, taking India's COVID-19 case count to above 1.02 crore, as per the health ministry’s January 1, 2021 update.India reported 256 new deaths, the seventh day that the toll stayed below 300, and 23,181 recoveries in the last 24 hours. Active cases continue to decline and fell to 2,54,254 with a drop of 3,402 cases in a day.Kerala reported the most (5,215 or 26 percent) new cases followed by Maharashtra (3,509), West Bengal (1,170), Chhattisgarh (1,035) and Karnataka (952). These five states account for 59 percent of all the new cases in the country. 
Maharashtra reported the most (58 or 23 percent) deaths followed by Kerala (30), West Bengal (29), Chhattisgarh (21), Delhi (13) and Tamil Nadu (13). These six states account for 64 percent of the new deaths reported India.About 11 states and union territories—like Andaman and Nicobar, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli/Daman and Diu, Ladakh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Pudduchery, Sikkim and Tripura—did not report any deaths. India’s recovery rate stands at 96.1 percent. Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu have the highest recovery rate at (99.6 percent, while Sikkim has the lowest at 88.9 percent. Kerala recorded 5,376 recoveries, the most, followed by Maharashtra (3,612), West Bengal (1,537), Chhattisgarh (1,518) and Karnataka (1,282).
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While India reports high cases and deaths overall, it ranks low in terms of cases and deaths per million population.
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