The death toll due to COVID-19 has risen to 27,497 with 681 fatalities reported in a single day.
India saw a record single-day surge of 40,425 COVID-19 cases. India’s tally has moved to 11-lakh mark on Monday. According to the Union Health Ministry data, the total number of recoveries crossed 7 lakh.
The death toll due to COVID-19 has risen to 27,497 with 681 fatalities reported in a single day.
The updated data by 8 am on Monday morning confirmed that the total number of COVID-19 cases stands at 11,18,043.
India’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 11-lakh mark, just three days after it crossed the ten-lakh mark.
There are 3,90,459 active cases in the country, while 7,00,086 people have recovered and one person has migrated. The recovery rate stands at 62.61 per cent.
The total number of confirmed cases includes foreigners.
This is the first time that the single-day spike has crossed the 40,000-mark.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested up to July 19 with 2,56,039 samples being tested on Sunday.
Of the 681 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 258 were reported from Maharashtra, 91 from Karnataka, 78 from Tamil Nadu, 56 from Andhra Pradesh, 38 from Uttar Pradesh, 36 from West Bengal, 31 from Delhi, 20 from Gujarat and 15 from Madhya Pradesh.
The total fatalities in one day include nine from Bihar, eight each from Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, six each from Rajasthan and Telangana, five each from Haryana and Odisha, four from Assam, three from Jharkhand, two from Kerala, and one each from Goa and Ladakh.
Of the total 27,497 deaths reported so far, Maharashtra accounted for the highest 11,854 fatalities followed by Delhi with 3,628 deaths, Tamil Nadu 2,481, Gujarat 2,142, Karnataka 1,331, Uttar Pradesh 1,146, West Bengal 1,112, Madhya Pradesh 721 and Andhra Pradesh 642.
So far, 559 people have died of COVID-19 in Rajasthan, 415 in Telangana, 349 in Haryana, 254 in Punjab, 244 in Jammu and Kashmir, 217 in Bihar, 91 in Odisha, 57 in Assam, 52 in Uttarakhand, 49 in Jharkhand and 42 in Kerala.
Puducherry has registered 28 deaths, Chhattisgarh 24, Goa 22, Chandigarh 12, Himachal Pradesh 11, Tripura 5, Arunachal Pradesh 3, while Meghalaya, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Ladakh have reported two fatalities each.
The Health Ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
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