For the primary time since the COVID-19 outbreak, India recorded over 10,000 new cases during a day taking the tally to 2,97,535, while the price rose to eight ,498 with a record single-day spike of 396 fatalities, consistent with the Union Health Ministry data.
The country has registered 10,956 new coronavirus infections within the last 24 hours till Friday 8 am.
India on Thursday went past the UK to become the fourth worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic, consistent with the Worldometer.
The number of active cases stands at 1,41,842, while 1,47,194 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said.
“Thus, around 49.47 per cent patients have recovered thus far,” a politician said.
The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.
Of the 396 new deaths reported till Friday morning, 152 were in Maharashtra, 101 in Delhi, 38 in Gujarat, 24 in Uttar Pradesh , 23 in Tamil Nadu , 12 in Haryana, 10 in West Bengal , nine in Telangana, six in Rajasthan, four each in Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, three each in Bihar and Karnataka, two each in Andhra Pradesh , Assam and Puducherry and one in Jammu and Kashmir.
Out of the entire 8,498 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,590 deaths followed by Gujarat with 1,385 deaths, Delhi with 1,085, West Bengal with 442, Madhya Pradesh with 431, Tamil Nadu with 349, Uttar Pradesh with 345, Rajasthan with 265 and Telangana with 165 deaths.
The price reached 80 in Andhra Pradesh , 72 in Karnataka, 64 in Haryana and 59 in Punjab.
Jammu and Kashmir has reported 52 fatalities thanks to the coronavirus disease, while 36 deaths are reported from Bihar, 18 from Kerala, 15 from Uttarakhand, nine from Odisha and eight from Jharkhand.
Chhattisgarh, Assam and Himachal Pradesh have registered six COVID-19 fatalities each, Chandigarh has five, Puducherry has two, while Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh have reported one COVID-19 fatality each, consistent with ministry data.
More than 70 per cent of the deaths are thanks to comorbidities, the ministry’s website stated.
The highest number of confirmed cases within the country are from Maharashtra at 97,648 followed by Tamil Nadu at 38,716, Delhi at 34,687, Gujarat at 22,032, Uttar Pradesh at 12,088, Rajasthan at 11,838 and Madhya Pradesh at 10,241, consistent with the health ministry’s data updated within the morning.
