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Updated: April 28, 2020 11:39:42 am
The top five states continue to contribute more than 70 percent of the countries’ new cases.
Maharashtra reported their highest mortality in a single day 27 as of Monday as the total death toll across the country rose to at least 918.
Across the country, 1,515 new cases of Coronavirus infection were discovered until the latest reports arrived on Monday night, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 29,362. More than 6,800 of these have already been recovered and discharged from hospitals. Maharashtra contributed 522 of the new cases, while Gujarat had 247.
Gujarat, which has witnessed an outbreak In both the number of cases and deaths in recent days, another 11 deaths were reported on Monday, with a total of 164, the highest in the country apart from Maharashtra.
The number of confirmed cases crossed 3000 in Delhi, but no deaths have been reported from the city in the past two days. The capital now has 3,108 cases and 54 deaths.
There has been a sudden drop in the number of new cases that have emerged from Telangana in the past few days. Among states with a large number of cases, only Kerala has added numbers to this slow pace. There were only two new cases in Telangana on Monday, bringing their account to 1003. The day before, there were 11 cases and before that seven cases. The state has not reported any deaths in the past four days.
| State | Total cases | New cases | Total deaths |
| Maharashtra | 8590 | 522 | 369 |
| Gujarat | 3548 | 247 | 264 |
| Delhi | 3108 | 190 | 54 |
| Rajasthan | 2199 | 14 | fifty |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2165 | 75 | 110 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1986 | 113 | 31 |
| Tamil Nadu | 1937 | 52 | 24 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1177 | 80 | 31 |
| Telangana | 1003 | 2 | 25 |
| west of bengal | 613 | 27 | twenty-one |
On the other hand, there has been a slight increase in numbers in West Bengal and Bihar. West Bengal has almost doubled its numbers in the past week, from 318 on April 20 to 613 now. Bihar, who until recently, had been reporting cases In single digits, he has seen his numbers jump from 170 on April 23 to 346 on Monday night.
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The top five states continue to contribute more than 70 percent of the countries’ new cases. On Monday, the states that reported the maximum number of cases, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh accounted for 1,152 of the 1,515 new cases, or 76 percent. Adding the daily increase for Madhya Pradesh and Bihar as well, the top seven states accounted for 85 percent of all new cases.
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