Record 24,850 cases, over 600 deaths in 1 day: Centre

INDIA’S COVID-19 CASELOAD ZOOMED TO 6,73,165, WHILE THE DEATH TOLL DUE TO THE DISEASE CLIMBED TO 19,268 ON SUNDAY

NEW DELHI: With a record singleday surge of 24,850 coronavirus infections and 613 fatalities, India’s Covid-19 caseload zoomed to 6,73,165, while the death toll due to the disease climbed to 19,268 on Sunday, according to the Union health ministry.

With this, the country has recorded over 20,000 cases of the infection for the third consecutive day.

According to the Johns Hopkins University in the United States, which has been compiling Covid-19 data from all over the world, India is the fourth worsthit nation by the pandemic after the US, Brazil and Russia and at the eighth position in terms of the death toll due to the disease.

Maharashtra crossed the grim milestone of two lakh Covid-19 cases, recording a single-day increase of 7,074, the health ministry’s updated data at 8 am showed.

Tamil Nadu registered 4,280 cases in the last 24 hours, while Delhi, Telangana, Karnataka, Assam and Bihar added a total of 7,935 cases in a day. These seven states accounted for around 78 per cent of the fresh cases.

With a steady rise, the number of recoveries stands at 4,09,082 in the country while one patient has migrated. There are 2,44,814 active coronavirus cases in the country, the data showed.

The number of recovered cases exceeded that of the active cases by 1,64,268 as of Sunday, the ministry said.

Of the 613 deaths reported in 24 hours, 295 are from Maharashtra, 81 from Delhi, 65 from Tamil Nadu, 42 from Karnataka, 24 from Uttar Pradesh, 21 from Gujarat, 19 from West Bengal, 12 from Andhra Pradesh, nine from Bihar, eight from J&K, seven from Rajasthan, five each from Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab and Telangana, two each from Goa and Jharkhand and one fatality was registered in Himachal Pradesh.

Maharashtra has reported the highest number of 2,00,064 cases, f o l l o wed b y Ta mi l Nadu (1,07,001), Delhi (97,200), Gujarat (35,312), UP (26,554), Telangana (22,312) and Karnataka (21,549).