India has registered another 5,609 positive cases of novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 1,12,359, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday morning. Besides, another 132 people died due to COVID-19, the ministry informed. The total number of casualties in India has reached 3,435.
The increase of 132 deaths reported since Wednesday morning includes 65 were from Maharashtra, 30 from Gujarat, nine from Madhya Pradesh, eight from Delhi, four each from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and three each from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
Of the 3,435 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,390 fatalities. It is followed by Gujarat at 749 deaths, Madhya Pradesh at 267, West Bengal at 253, Delhi at 176, Rajasthan at 147, Uttar Pradesh at 127,Tamil Nadu at 87 and Andhra Pradesh at 53.
The death toll reached 41 in Karnataka, 40 in Telangana and 38 in Punjab.
Jammu and Kashmir has reported 18 fatalities due to the disease and Haryana 14, while Bihar has registered 10 deaths and Odisha six.
Kerala and Assam have reported four deaths each so far.
Jharkhand, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh each have recorded three COVID-19 fatalities, while Meghalaya and Uttarakhand have reported one fatality each, according to the data provided by the health ministry.
According to the ministry’s website, more than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, the existence of multiple disorders in the same person.
According to the health ministry data updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 39,297, followed by Tamil Nadu at 13,191, Gujarat at 12,537, Delhi at 11,088, Rajasthan at 6,015, Madhya Pradesh at 5,735 and Uttar Pradesh at 5,175.
The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 3,103 in West Bengal, 2,602 in Andhra Pradesh and 2,005 in Punjab.
It has risen to 1,661 in Telangana, 1,674 in Bihar, 1,462 in Karnataka, 1,390 in Jammu and Kashmir and 1,052 in Odisha.
Haryana has reported 993 Coronavirus infection cases so far while Kerala has 666 cases. A total of 231 people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 202 in Chandigarh.
Tripura has reported 173 cases, Assam 170, Uttarakhand 122, Chhattisgarh 115 and Himachal Pradesh 110. Goa has registered 50 cases so far.
Ladakh has reported 44 COVID-19 cases, while the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has registered 33 infections.
Manipur has 25 cases, Puducherry 18 and Meghalaya 14. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli have reported a case each till how.
“1,403 cases are being reassigned to states,” the ministry said on its website, adding “our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR“.
State-wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it said.
Meanwhile, the total number of global coronavirus cases has increased to nearly 5 million, while the death toll has surged past 328,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 4,995,712, while the death toll increased to 328,095, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
The U.S. currently accounts for the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 1,551,668 and 93,431, respectively.
In terms of cases, Russia has the second highest number of infections at 308,705, followed by Brazil (291,579), the UK (249,619), Spain (232,555), Italy (227,364), France (181,700), Germany (178,473), Turkey (152,587) and Iran (126,949), the CSSE figures showed.
Meanwhile, the U.K. accounted for the second highest COVID-19 deaths worldwide at 35,786.
The other countries with over 10,000 deaths are Italy (32,330), France (28,135), Spain (27,888) and Brazil.