Govt Releases List Of States With More Than 2.8 Lakh COVID19 Cases, Maharashtra At Top
Mumbai: The Centre on Saturday released a list of states and a Union Territory that have more than 2.8 lakh confirmed coronavirus cases. Maharashtra has the highest number with 26,37,735 confirmed cases so far.
This is followed by Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana.
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According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday, Maharashtra, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh continue to report a surge in the daily cases of Covid-19 79.57% of the new cases are reported from these 6 states,” it said in a statement.
Out of 452,647 active cases in the country, 73% are in Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab. The current active caseload now accounts for 3.8% of India’s total positive cases. The Health Ministry said a net increase of 31,581 cases was reported from the total active caseload in the last 24 hours.
Health Ministry data, updated at 8 am on Saturday, shows that 75.6 per cent of the 291 deaths related to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours have occurred in Maharashtra, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Karnataka. There were 112 deaths in Maharashtra, 59 deaths per day in Punjab, 22 in Chhattisgarh, 14 in Kerala and 13 in Karnataka.
India’s cumulative recoveries stand at 11,295,023 and the national recovery rate is down at 94.84%. Of the 30,386 recoveries registered in the last 24 hours, Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of single-day recoveries with 17,019 newly-recovered cases, the health ministry said.
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