NEW DELHI, Jan. 20 -- India on Monday reported steady decline in the daily fatalities due to Covid-19, recording less than 150 fatalities (145) in the last 24 hours after nearly eight months (to be exact 7 months and 23 days). Total deaths in the country are 1,52,419.

While Maharashtra and Kerala reported 50 and 21 deaths resspectively, there were no deaths in 15 states, 1 to 5 daily deaths in 15 states, 5 to 10 deaths in four states and West Bengal recorded 12 deaths.

The Health Ministry claimed landmark achievement of the total recovered cases overshooting the active case load by more than one crore on Monday as the total recoveries recorded are 102.11 lakh as against 2.08 lakh active cases. As many as 14,457 recoveries were registered ...