India records highest single-day spike of over 49,000 Covid-19 cases
Another record single-day number of 49,310 cases of Covid-19 took India's total tally of the contagion patients to 12,87,945, Indian Health Ministry data said today.
The death toll crossed the 30,000-mark and stood at 30,601 with the addition of 740 fresh fatalities in the last 24 hours.
Active cases now stand at 4,40,135 while 8,17,208 people have recovered, the ministry figures showed. This marks around 63.45 per cent recovery rate so far.
Of the 740 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 298 are from the worst-hit state of Maharashtra, 97 from Karnataka, 88 from Tamil Nadu, 61 from Andhra Pradesh, 34 from West Bengal, 28 from Gujarat, 26 each from Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, 11 from Rajasthan, 10 from Madhya Pradesh and nine each from Jammu and Kashmir and Telangana.
Among the other states, Punjab has reported eight fatalities followed by Assam, Odisha and Haryana with six deaths each, Kerala five, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Puducherry three each, while Chhattisgarh, Tripura and Goa have registered a fatality each.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the government is providing plasma free in the national capital and people do not need to buy or sell it.
The Covid-19 cases in West Bengal breached the 50,000-mark last night with another record single-day increase of 2,436 patients on a day when the entire was under a 24-hour strict lockdown aimed at checking the spread of the contagion.
The number of cases in West Bengal now stand at 51,757 while the total death toll in the state so far reached 1,255 with the addition of 34 fatalities in the 24 hours till Thursday night.
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