Virus cases jump

The active Covid-19 cases continue to rise in India with 4116 cases reported in the past 24 hours to push up the cumulative total of 1,68,627 which is 1.52% of 1.11 crore positive cases.

Maharashtra tops with as many as 4,478 active cases while other states with significant number of active cases are: Punjab 196, Madhya Pradesh 119, Karnataka 166, and Gujarat105.

There were 106 fatalities in the past 24 hours, with Maharashtra accounting for 62 of them, followed by Kerala 15 and Punjab 7. As many as 19 out of 36 states/Union Territories had no death in the last one day.

As many as 15,510 persons were detected with the positive symptoms in 24 hours in the tests conducted on 6.28 lakh. As many as 21.69 crore persons have been tested so far.

The country's Covid-19 recovery rate on Monday reached 97.07%, with 11,288 patients recovered in 24 hours up to 8 AM. The total number of recoveries has gone up to 1.08 crore.