New Delhi (NVI): India registered a single-day rise of 63,509 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the overall tally to 72,39,390, Union Health Ministry confirmed.
The country’s death toll has gone up to 1,10,586 with 730 fatalities reported during this period.
Notably, the number of active cases stands at 8,26,876, while 63,01,928 patients have been cured and discharged from the hospitals across the country. With this, the recovery rate further improves to 87 per cent in India.
In worst-affected Maharashtra, the COVID-19 cases stands at 15,43,837, followed by Andhra Pradesh with 7,63,573 cases, and Karnataka with 7,26,106 cases.
The other worst affected states in the country are Tamil Nadu (6,65,930), Uttar Pradesh (4,42,118) and Delhi (3,14,224).
Maharashtra has also reported the highest number of death toll at 4,701 followed by 10,371 deaths in Tamil Nadu.
The death toll in the national capital surpassed to 5,854, while 2,86,880 patients have recovered so far, the healthy ministry data shows.
As per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data, a total 9,00,90,122 samples tested for COVID-19 in the country up to October 13. Of these 1,145,015 samples were tested yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is planning to conduct an online survey to study the possibility of commuters planning their travel in flexible timings in order to avoid overcrowding while using the rapid transit system, amid the COVID-19 situation.
-RJV
