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Indian citizens undergoing screening after being brought in by a special Air India flight at IGI airport in New Delhi. (PTI)
A total of 97 deaths have been reported since Sunday morning. Of these 53 were in Maharashtra, 21 in Gujarat, 14 in West Bengal, three in Tamil Nadu and one in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Haryana and Rajasthan.
- PTI
- Last update: May 11, 2020 2:09 PM IST
India recorded a record jump of 4,213 cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours, bringing the country’s count to 67,152 on Monday and the death toll from the disease rose to 2,206 with 97 recent deaths, according to the Union health ministry.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 was 44,029 in the country. While 20,916 people have recovered, one patient has migrated, he said.
“Therefore, about 31.15 percent of patients have recovered so far,” said a senior health ministry official.
A total of 97 deaths have been reported since Sunday morning. Of these 53 were in Maharashtra, 21 in Gujarat, 14 in West Bengal, three in Tamil Nadu and one in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Of the 2,206 deaths, Maharashtra tops the list with 832 deaths, Gujarat is second with 493 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh in 215, West Bengal in 185, Rajasthan in 107, Uttar Pradesh in 74, Delhi in 73, Tamil Nadu in 47 and Andhra Pradesh at 45.
Karnataka and Punjab have each recorded 31 deaths.
Telangana has reported 30 deaths due to respiratory disease, Haryana has recorded 10, Jammu and Kashmir nine, 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 ministry’s website, more than 70 percent of deaths are due to comorbidities.
According to data from the Ministry of Health updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country is from Maharashtra with 22,171 followed by Gujarat with 8,194, Tamil Nadu with 7,204, Delhi with 6,923, Rajasthan with 3,814, Madhya Pradesh with 3,614 and Uttar Pradesh at 3,467.
Andhra Pradesh has 1,980 cases of COVID-19, West Bengal 1,939 and Punjab 1,823.
Telangana has 1,196 cases, Jammu and Kashmir 861, Karnataka 848, Haryana 703 and Bihar 696.
Kerala has reported 512 cases of coronavirus so far, while Odisha has reported 377 cases. A total of 169 people have been infected with the virus in Chandigarh and 157 in Jharkhand.
Tripura has reported 150 cases, Uttarakhand 68, Assam 63, Chhattisgarh 59, Himachal Pradesh 55 and Ladakh 42.
33 cases of COVID-19 have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Meghalaya has recorded 13 cases, Puducherry has nine, and Goa has seven.
Manipur has two cases. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli have each reported one case.
“Our figures are reconciled with the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research),” the ministry said on its website.
Distribution at the state level is subject to further verification and reconciliation, he said.
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