In the last 24 hours, 671 deaths were reported due to the highly contagious illness, taking the COVID-19 death count to 26,273.
India, coronavirus tally surged to 10.38 lakh cases this morning after 34,884 new patients were registered in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said.
In the last 24 hours, 671 deaths linked to the highly contagious illness were reported, taking the COVID-19 death count to 26,273. The recovery rate stood at 62.93 per cent this morning. India is the third worst-hit country by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil.
As per the Ministry, Maharashtra the worst-affected state from the deadly virus — has a total of 2,92,589 coronavirus cases and 11,452 fatalities.
While Tamil Nadu has a tally of 1,60,907 cases and 2,315 deaths due to COVID-19, Delhi has reported a total of 1,20,107 cases and 3,571 deaths due to the virus.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that 1,34,33,742 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 17, of these 3,61,024 samples were tested yesterday.
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