April 19, 2026 08:17 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Pushback from smartphone makers: Centre drops Aadhaar app pre-install plan — report | Meta eyes first wave of layoffs on May 20: Report | TCS breaks silence on Nida Khan: ‘No HR role, no power’ in Nashik case | ‘Panic reaction’: Rahul Gandhi on women’s bill, says PM Modi ‘wants to send a message’ | Adani Group shares rise as Gautam Adani becomes Asia’s richest, overtakes Mukesh Ambani | TCS Nashik ‘conversion’ case accused seeks anticipatory bail citing pregnancy | IT raids TMC candidate Debasish Kumar’s premises ahead of Bengal polls | Bengal SIR: Supreme Court allows voters restored by tribunal till April 21 and 27 to vote | 'Women won't spare you': PM Modi warns Opposition over resistance to quota bill | Vijay booked in 3 cases over poll code violation ahead of Tamil Nadu polls
India COVID19
Image credit: UNI

India adds 13,058 new COVID-19 cases, recovery rate improves to 98.14 percent

| @indiablooms | Oct 19, 2021, at 03:24 pm

New Delhi: India, the country that witnessed a deadly second wave of the pandemic, added 13,058 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, as per data released  by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.

It is the lowest daily case added in the past 231 days.

Recovery rate also improved to 98.14 percent, which is the highest figure since March 2020.

19,470 people recovered from the deadly virus in the last 24 hours.

Active cases account for less than 1 percent of total cases. It currently  stands at 0.54 percent.

India's Active caseload stands at 1,83,118.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.