New Delhi: With the worst surge of 9,304 cases in a day so far, the total tally of coronavirus cases in India mounted to 216,919, a Health Ministry data revealed on Thursday.
Of the total cases 106,737 are active, while 104,107 people have been cured and discharged from the hospitals.
A total of 260 people died since Wednesday, taking the death toll to 6,075.
The recovery rate of COVID cases is now 47.99 per cent, while the death rate is 2.8 per cent. India continued to be the seventh worst hit country from the pandemic inching towards Italy’s coronavirus tally.
The COVID-19 cases remained unabated in Maharashtra with a total of 74,860 reported so far, followed by Tamil Nadu with 25,872, Delhi 23,645 cases and Gujarat with 18,100.
Maharashtra has also reported the highest number of deaths from the disease, at least 2,587, followed by 1,122 in Gujarat and 606 in Delhi.
States that have reported more than 5,000 cases are Rajasthan (9,652), Uttar Pradesh (8,729), Madhya Pradesh (8,588) and West Bengal (6,508). Other major states that reported a significant number of cases are Bihar (4,390), Andhra Pradesh (4,080), Haryana (2,954), Jammu and Kashmir (2,857), Karnataka (4,063), Odisha (2,388), Punjab (2,376), Telangana (3,020) and Uttarakhand (1,085).
The total number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 6.4 million, while the death toll has topped 385,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the overall number of cases stood at 6,429,453, while the death toll increased to 385,873, the University’s Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
