With the highest single-day spike of 28,637 new cases in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 count reached 8,49,553 on Sunday.
IMAGE: Volunteers from Mercy Angel and their helping hand team perform the last rites of a COVID-19 victim at Khuddus Saab burial ground in Bengaluru. Photograph: Shailendra Bhojak/PTI Photo
The death toll climbed to 22,674 with 551 people succumbing to the disease in 24 hours, the updated data at 8 am showed.
According to Union health ministry data, the number of recoveries stands at 5,34,621 while there are 2,92,258 active cases.
The toll due to the disease has reached 22,674 in the country.
IMAGE: A salesman attends a customer at a jewellery shop in Chennai. Photograph: PTI Photo
This was the ninth consecutive day that COVID-19 cases in the country increased by more than 22,000.
Maharashtra with 2,46,600 cases continues to be the worst affected state by COVID-19 in the country.
IMAGE: Medics attend the COVID affected patients at a temporary COVID-19 Care Center constructed in the Commonwealth Game in New Delhi. Photograph: ANI Photo
The state has 99,499 active cases while 1,36,985 patients have been cured and discharged so far.
The death toll due to the disease now stands at 10,116.
IMAGE: Health workers wearing personal protective equipment escorted by policemen as they arrive to screen the people in Ambujwadi slum in Mumbai’s Malad area. Photograph: ANI Photo
Tamil Nadu with 1,34,226 cases, including 46,413 active ones, is the next worst affected in the country.
While the number of cured and discharged patients is at 85,915 in the state, the toll due to the disease is at 1,898.
IMAGE: Murals on COVID-19 frontline warriors are seen on the pillars of a bridge in Noida. Photograph: PTI Photo
The national capital has recorded 1,10,921 confirmed cases so far.
However, the number of active cases in Delhi is at 19,895 and 87,692 patients have been cured and discharged so far.
With 3,334 deaths being reported due to COVID-19 in the city.
