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NEW DELHI: India COVID-19 the count was around 300 less than the 60,000 mark late on Friday night, after new cases topped 3,000 for the third day in a row Maharashtra again adding more than 1,000 to the account.
The infection continued to rage Tamil Nadu also, it reported 600 new cases, even when the case load remained high in Gujarat (390) and Delhi (338). Meanwhile, West Bengal and Odisha recorded their highest counts in a single day with 130 and 51 new cases, respectively.
Overall, 3,294 new cases were reported from the states in the past 24 hours, slightly less than the count for the past two days. With this, the Covid-19 count in India has reached 59,691, just 309 less than 60,000. The total death toll was also just under 2,000 in 1983.
Maharashtra, which recorded 1,089 new cases, also accounted for the day’s highest death toll of 37, of which 25 were from Mumbai alone. Of the 93 deaths reported across the country, Gujarat recorded 24, followed by West Bengal (9), MP (8), and Rajasthan (4). Three deaths were reported each from UP and Tamil Nadu, two from Delhi and one from Haryana, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
Overall, Maharashtra has recorded the highest deaths, 731, Covid-19, followed by Gujarat, which has recorded a total of 449 deaths. Both states are the most affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.
The total Covid-19 count in Gujarat is now 7,403 as 390 more cases were reported in 24 hours until 5pm on Friday.
Local critical care experts have revealed that aside from acute respiratory distress triggered by Covid-19, complications from severe thrombosis or abnormal blood clotting in the lungs, heart, brain, and other vital organs, and triggered hyperinflammation by Coronavirus claims lives in Gujarat. The best AIIMS doctors, including the director of the institute Dr. Randeep Guleria they have been transferred to Ahmedabad to guide the state reeling under an unremitting death march.
In the largest jump in Covid-19 cases so far, Odisha registered 51 positive cases, bringing the total to 270. Most of the new positive cases are migrant workers who had returned from Gujarat, authorities said.
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