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NEW DELHI: The death toll from COVID-19 It rose to 2,293 and the number of cases rose to 70,756 in the country on Tuesday, registering an increase of 87 deaths and 3,604 cases in the last 24 hours from Monday at 8 a.m., according to the Union health ministry.
The number of active Covid-19 cases in the country was 46,008, while 22,454 people recovered and one patient migrated, the ministry said.
“Therefore, about 31.73 percent of patients have recovered so far,” said a senior health ministry official.
A total of 87 deaths have been reported since Monday morning: 36 in Maharashtra, 20 in Gujarat, six in Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, five in West Bengal and one in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.
Of the 2,293 deaths, Maharashtra represents the highest number of deaths in 868, followed by Gujarat (513), Madhya Pradesh (221), West Bengal (190), Rajasthan (113), Uttar Pradesh (80), Delhi (73), Tamil Nadu (53) and Andhra Pradesh (45).
The death toll rose to 31 in Karnataka and Punjab.
Telangana has reported 30 deaths due to respiratory disease, Haryana 11, Jammu and Kashmir 10, Bihar six and Kerala four.
Jharkhand and Odisha have recorded three Covid-19 deaths each, while Himachal Pradesh, Assam and Chandigarh have reported two deaths each.
Meghalaya and Uttarakhand have each reported one death, according to ministry data.
According to the website of the ministry of health, more than 70 percent of deaths are due to comorbidities.
The total figure of 70,756 includes foreign citizens.
According to data from the Ministry of Health updated in the morning, the largest number of 23,401 confirmed cases is from Maharashtra, followed by Gujarat (8,541), Tamil Nadu (8,002), Delhi (7,233), Rajasthan (3,988), Madhya Pradesh (3,785 ) and Uttar Pradesh (3,573).
The number of Covid-19 cases has increased to 2,063 in West Bengal, 2,018 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,877 in Punjab.
It has increased to 1,275 in Telangana, 879 in Jammu and Kashmir, 862 in Karnataka, 747 in Bihar and 730 in Haryana.
Kerala has reported 519 coronavirus cases so far, while Odisha has 414 cases. A total of 174 people have been infected with the virus in Chandigarh and 160 in Jharkhand.
Tripura has reported 152 cases, Uttarakhand 68, Assam 65, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have 55 cases each and Ladakh has recorded 42 coronavirus cases so far.
Thirty-three cases of Covid-19 have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Meghalaya has registered 13 cases, Puducherry 12 and Goa seven.
Manipur has two cases, while Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli have each reported one case.
“Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR,” the ministry said on its website.
Distribution at the state level is subject to further verification and reconciliation, he added.
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