New Delhi: With 9,195 fatalities till Sunday, India is the ninth worst-hit nation in terms of COVID-19 deaths while the highest spike of 11,929 cases took the tally to over 3.20 lakh of which over half have recovered from the disease.
According to the Union health ministry data, the country recorded 311 new deaths in the 24-hour period till Sunday morning while the recovery rate rose to above 50 per cent with 1,62,378 patients cured so far, leaving 1,49,348 cases active.
The Johns Hopkins University, which has been compiling COVID-19 data from all over the world, put India in the ninth position in terms of death toll and fourth in terms of total caseload.
This was the third day in a row that more than 10,000 cases of infection has been reported in the country. A total of 8,049 COVID-19 patients have been cured till Sunday 8 am taking the recovery rate to 50.60 per cent, the health ministry said. One patient has migrated out of the country.
The Indian Council of Medical Research’s testing capacity for detecting COVID-19 cases was being ramped up continuously.
In total, 893 laboratories — 646 government and 247 private — tested 56,58,614 swab samples till 9 am with 1,51,432 of them in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
Of the total deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,830 fatalities, followed 1,448 in Gujarat and 1,271 in Delhi. The toll due to the disease rose to 463 in West Bengal, 447 in Madhya Pradesh, 397 in Tamil Nadu and 385 in Uttar Pradesh.
There have been 282 COVID-19 deaths in Rajasthan and 182 in Telangana. The number of fatalities reached 82 in Andhra Pradesh, 81 in Karnataka, 78 in Haryana and 65 in Punjab.
Jammu and Kashmir has reported 55 COVID-19 deaths, followed by 39 in Bihar, 23 in Uttarakhand and 19 in Kerala. Odisha has registered 10 deaths so far, followed by eight each in Jharkhand and Assam, and six each in Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh. Five people have succumbed to the viral infection in Chandigarh, followed by two in Puducherry, and one each in Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh, the heath ministry said. More than 70 per cent of the deaths have happened due to comorbidities, it added. (PTI)
