India records biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases, passes 3 lakh mark

India surpassed the three lakh-mark of coronavirus positive cases today with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, according to the country's health ministry.

The death toll too climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

The country took 64 days to cross the one lakh-mark while in another fortnight it reached the grim milestone of two lakh cases.

India now has a caseload of 3,08,993, according to coronavirus statistics website Worldometer.

However, the health ministry said yesterday that the doubling time of coronavirus cases has improved to 17.4 days from 15.4 days. And its data updated at 8am local time today showed active cases at 1,45,779 and recovery number at 1,54,329.

"Thus, around 49.9 percent patients have recovered so far," a ministry official said.

Of the 386 new deaths, Delhi accounted for the highest 129 fatalities followed by Maharashtra's 127.

The virus is moving rapidly in Delhi which for the first time reported over 2,000 cases on Friday, and in Maharashtra, where the number of cases has crossed one lakh.

Of the total 8,884 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,717 fatalities followed by Gujarat with 1,415, Delhi with 1,214 and West Bengal with 451.

Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of positive cases at 1,01,141 followed by Tamil Nadu (40,698), Delhi (36,824), Gujarat (22,527), Uttar Pradesh (12,616), Rajasthan (12,068) and Madhya Pradesh (10,443).

The number of Covid-19 cases in West Bengal has gone up to 10,244.