New Delhi, Nov. 30 -- Only 38,772 new Covid-19 cases were reported in India and 45,333 new recoveries ensuring a net reduction of 6,561 cases from the active caseload.

Ten states/UTs accounted for 78.56 per cent of the 443 case deaths reported in the past 24 hours, an official release here said.

Due to contraction of India's active caseload, India's present active caseload of 4,46,952 consists of just 4.74 per cent of India's total positive cases.

With new recoveries outnumbering new cases, the recovery rate stood at 93.81 per cent on Monday. The recovered cases totalled 88,47,600 and the gap between recovered and active cases was steadily increasing, and was pegged at 84,00,648, that is 19.8 times the active cases.

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