New Delhi (NVI): With 39,726 new coronavirus infections being reported in the last 24 hours, the highest-single day spike this year, the overall tally has climbed to 11,514,331, the Union Health Ministry confirmed today.
India recorded more than 30,000 fresh cases today for the second consecutive day. The country recorded 35,871 fresh Covid cases on Thursday and 28,903 cases on Wednesday.
The death count climbed to 1,59,370 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 154 lives during this period, the data showed.
Despite the increase of COVID-19 cases across states and union territories in the country, the coronavirus mortality rate remains below two percent.
Currently, more than 1.10 crore patients have been cured and recovered across the country and the total number of recoveries stands at 11,083,679.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 active caseload increased to 2,71,282 which now comprises 1.74 percent of the total infections.
Maharashtra reported 25,833 new cases, which is an increase of nearly 2,000 cases recorded on Wednesday when the state reported 23,179 new cases.
With this, Maharashtra remains the worst-affected state with 23,96,340 COVID-19 cases followed by Kerala with 10,98,291 and Karnataka with 9,65,102 positive cases.
The other worst hit states are Andhra Pradesh (8,92,740), Tamil Nadu (8,63,363), Delhi (6,45,632) and Uttar Pradesh (6,06,229).
-CHK
