Crown Cases in India: Covid-19 death toll rises to 826, cases rise to 26,917: Ministry of Health | India News



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NEW DELHI: The number of deaths across the country from Covid-19 increased to 826 and the number of cases rose to 26,917 on Sunday, according to the Union health ministry.
The country has reported 47 deaths since Saturday night, the ministry said. The total number of cases has increased by 1,975 since the last time the ministry updated its data on Saturday night.
The number of active Covid-19 cases was 20,177, while 5,913 people (21.96 percent) were cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, the ministry said.
The total number of cases includes 111 foreign citizens.
Of the 47 deaths reported since Saturday night, 22 are from Maharashtra, eight in Rajasthan, seven from Madhya Pradesh, six Gujarat and one from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Tamil Nadu.
Of the total of 824 Covid-19 deaths, Maharashtra represents the highest number of 323 deaths, followed by Gujarat (133), Madhya Pradesh (99), Delhi (54), Andhra Pradesh (31), and Rajasthan (33).
The death toll reached 27 in Uttar Pradesh, 26 in Telangana, 23 in Tamil Nadu, while Karnataka and West Bengal have each reported 18 deaths, the ministry said.
Punjab has recorded 17 deaths so far, Jammu and Kashmir six, Kerala four, while Jharkhand and Haryana have recorded three Covid-19 deaths each.
Bihar has reported two deaths from coronavirus, while Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported one death each, according to the ministry’s data.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, the largest number of confirmed cases in the country is from Maharashtra with 7,628, followed by Gujarat (3,071), Delhi (2,625), Rajasthan (2,083), Madhya Pradesh (2,096) and Uttar Pradesh (1,843 ).
The number of Covid-19 cases has increased to 1,821 in Tamil Nadu, 1,097 in Andhra Pradesh and 991 in Telangana.
The number of cases increased to 611 in West Bengal, 501 in Karnataka, 494 in Jammu and Kashmir, 458 in Kerala, 298 in Punjab and 289 in Haryana.
Bihar has reported 251 cases of coronavirus, while Odisha has 103. Sixty-seven people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 50 in Uttarakhand.
Himachal Pradesh has 40 cases, while Chhattisgarh has recorded 37 cases and Assam 36.
Chandigarh has 30 cases, while there are 33 Covid-19 patients on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Twenty cases of coronavirus have been reported from Ladakh, 12 from Meghalaya, while Goa and Puducherry have reported seven cases of Covid-19 each.
Manipur and Tripura each have two patients with coronavirus, while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have each reported one case.
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