The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,301 and the number of cases climbed to 39,980 in the country on Sunday, according to the Union health ministry.
IMAGE: A woman reacts as a doctor takes a swab from her nose to test for the coronavirus disease at a mobile testing center, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 28,046, while 10,632 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said.
The total number of cases include 111 foreign nationals.
Of the 1,301 deaths, Maharashtra accounts for the maximum with 521 fatalities, followed by Gujarat (262), Madhya Pradesh (151), Rajasthan (65), Delhi (64), Uttar Pradesh (43) and West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh at 33 each.
IMAGE: Medical workers wear protective suit and screen the body temperature of a rickshaw puller during the COVID-19 lockdown in Kolkata. Photograph: ANI Photo
The death toll reached 29 in Tamil Nadu, 28 in Telangana, while Karnataka has reported 25 fatalities due to the disease.
Punjab has registered 20 COVID-19 deaths, Jammu and Kashmir eight, Kerala, Bihar and Haryana have reported four deaths each. Jharkhand has recorded three COVID-19 deaths.
Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported a fatality each, according to the ministry data.
