NEW DELHI, June 14:
India recorded the highest one-day spike of 11,929 COVID cases to take the tally to a little over 3.20 lakh, today.
The country’s overall COVID-19 recovery rate rose to above 50 per cent with 1,62,378 patients cured so far, while 1,49,348 cases were active, the ministry said. There were 311 new deaths to take the death toll to 9,195 that made India the ninth worst-hit country in terms of COVID-19 fatalities.
Elsewhere in the country, Kerala reported a marginal dip in new cases with 54 people, including three health workers, testing positive, taking the tally to 2,460 but Andhra Pradesh recorded a single largest spike of 294 in a day. Kerala has been recording over 75 fresh cases in the last three days.
In AP, the number of cases crossed the 6,000 mark to reach 6,152, according to official data.
In Tamil Nadu, 38 more people died of COVID-19 pushing the toll to 435 in the state, where 1,974 people were infected by the virus today, the Health Department said.
With 1,974 fresh cases being confirmed, the total number of those affected by the disease in the state climbed to 44,661, it said.
Besides Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, the other States reporting Coronavirus cases were Gujarat–23,038, Uttar Pradesh–13,118, Rajasthan–12,401 and West Bengal–10,698. On Sunday, Maharashtra recorded a jump of 3,390 new infections.
The number has gone up to 10,641 in Madhya Pradesh, 6,824 in Karnataka, 6,749 in Haryana and 6,290 in Bihar, 4,737 in Telangana, 3,723 in Odisha and 3,718 in Assam.
There are 3,063 cases in Punjab while 1,785 people have been infected in Uttarakhand and 1,711 in Jharkhand. A total of 1,512 people were affected in Chhattisgarh, followed by 1,046 in Tripura, 523 in Goa and 502 in Himachal Pradesh.
The number of coronavirus cases rose to 449 in Manipur and 345 in Chandigarh. Puducherry has registered 176 COVID-19 cases so far, followed by Nagaland 163, Mizoram 107 and Arunachal Pradesh 87.
Sikkim has 63 COVID-19 cases, while there are 44 cases in Meghalaya and 38 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu have registered 35 cases so far. (PTI)
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