COVID-19: India crosses four lakh mark as positive cases witness surge
New Delhi: India crossed 4 lakh novel coronavirus cases Saturday on a day the country reported over 14,000 cases, in its steepest one-day jump. The total number of cases is now 4,00,412 and the number of deaths linked to the contagion is close to 13,000. India has the world’s fourth highest number behind the United States, Brazil and Russia.
Data from state health departments show an increase of over 5,000 cases just this evening – India’s coronavirus tally was 3.95 lakh cases in the morning.
Over 12,900 patients have died due to the deadly virus in the country since the beginning of the pandemic. The country’s recovery rate stood at 54.12 per cent this morning.
Maharashtra remains the worst affected state in India with over 1.24 lakh cases followed by Tamil Nadu which reported 56,845 cases – an increase of over 2,000 cases since this morning. The country’s capital Delhi is third with over 53,000 cases.
This is the third consecutive day that India registered a record jump in the number of coronavirus cases.
The country has witnessed a surge of over two lakh infections from June 1 till 20 with Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh among the top five states that have seen a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases.
Of the 375 new deaths reported till Friday morning, 142 were from Maharashtra, 66 from Delhi, 41 from Tamil Nadu, 27 from Gujarat, 23 from Uttar Pradesh, 11 from West Bengal, 10 each from Rajasthan, Karnataka and Haryana, nine each from Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, six from Bihar, four each from Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, and three from Telangana.
India is the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic after the US, Brazil and Russia. According to the Johns Hopkins University, which has been compiling COVID-19 data from all over the world, India is at the eighth position in terms of the death toll.
Of the total 12,948 deaths, Maharashtra accounted for the highest 5,893 fatalities followed by Delhi with 2,035 deaths, Gujarat with 1,618, Tamil Nadu with 666, West Bengal with 529, Madhya Pradesh with 495, Uttar Pradesh with 488, Rajasthan with 333 and Telangana with 198 deaths.
The COVID-19 death toll reached 144 in Haryana, 124 in Karnataka, 96 in Andhra Pradesh, 92 in Punjab, 75 in Jammu and Kashmir, 50 in Bihar, 26 in Uttarakhand, 21 in Kerala and 11 in Odisha.
Jharkhand has also registered 11 deaths, Chhattisgarh 10, Assam 9, Himachal Pradesh 8, Puducherry 7, Chandigarh 6 while Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh have reported 1 fatality each, according to the Health Ministry.
More than 70 per cent deaths took place due to comorbidities, the ministry said.
Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of cases at 1,24,331 followed by Tamil Nadu at 54,449, Delhi at 53,116, Gujarat at 26,141, Uttar Pradesh at 15,785, Rajasthan at 14,156 and West Bengal at 13,090, according to the Health Ministry’s data.
The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 11,582 in Madhya Pradesh, 9,743 in Haryana, 8,281 in Karnataka, 7,961 in Andhra Pradesh and 7,181 in Bihar.
It has risen to 6,526 in Telangana, 5,680 in Jammu and Kashmir, 4,904 in Assam and 4,677 in Odisha.
Punjab has reported 3,832 novel coronavirus cases so far, while Kerala has 2,912 cases.
A total of 2,177 people have been infected by the virus in Uttarakhand, 2,028 in Chhattisgarh, 1,965 in Jharkhand, 1,178 in Tripura, 725 in Goa, 744 in Ladakh, 681 in Manipur and 619 in Himachal Pradesh.
Chandigarh has registered 381 COVID-19 cases, Puducherry has 286 cases, Nagaland has 198, Mizoram has 130, Arunachal Pradesh has 103 and Sikkim has 70.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu together have reported 62 COVID-19 cases.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands has registered 45 infections each so far while Meghalaya has recorded 44 cases.
“Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR,” the ministry said, adding 9,265 cases are being reassigned to states.
State-wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it added. (with PTI inputs)
