DATA STORY: 9th straight day of net decline brings India's active cases down to 861,853

The only state that has consistently exceeded its previous highest single-day jumps in the past 5 days is West Bengal. On Monday it added another high of 3612 cases

India on Monday reported its ninth straight day of net reduction in active coronavirus caseload – and 19^th since September 19 – bringing the total down to 861,853, the lowest since September 5. The country’s total count of confirmed coronavirus cases reached 7,120,538 as 66,732 cases got added to the tally on Monday.
 
While 71,559 new coronavirus recoveries took the total number of cured cases to 6,149,535, or 86.36 per cent of all infections, 816 Covid-19 fatalities in a day took India’s death toll to 109,150.
 
The second-most-affected country by active and total cases, and third by fatality,