The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has informed that 18,522 fresh cases of novel coronavirus have been reported from the country in the past 24 hours ending Tuesday morning. The addition of the fresh cases has taken the total COVID-19 case count in the country to 5,66,840.
Also, 418 fresh fatalities have been reported during this period that has taken the death toll due to the deadly virus to 16,893.
According to the ministry, the number of active cases stands at 2,15,125, while 3,34,821 people have recovered, and one patient has migrated. “Thus, around 59.07 per cent of patients have recovered so far,” an official said. The total number of confirmed cases includes foreigners.
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Of the 418 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 181 are from Maharashtra; 62 from Tamil Nadu; 57 from Delhi; 19 each from Gujarat and Karnataka; 14 from West Bengal; 12 from Uttar Pradesh; 11 from Andhra Pradesh; nine from Haryana; seven from Madhya Pradesh; six each from Rajasthan and Telangana; five from Punjab; three from Jharkhand; two each from Bihar and Odisha and one each from Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand.
| S. No. | Name of State / UT | Active Cases* | Cured/Discharged/Migrated* | Deaths** | Total Confirmed cases* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 44 | 46 | 0 | 90 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 7479 | 6232 | 180 | 13891 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 125 | 61 | 1 | 187 |
| 4 | Assam | 2408 | 5333 | 11 | 7752 |
| 5 | Bihar | 2188 | 7390 | 62 | 9640 |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 80 | 349 | 6 | 435 |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 575 | 2173 | 13 | 2761 |
| 8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 126 | 77 | 0 | 203 |
| 9 | Delhi | 26246 | 56235 | 2680 | 85161 |
| 10 | Goa | 717 | 478 | 3 | 1198 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 6871 | 23240 | 1827 | 31938 |
| 12 | Haryana | 4476 | 9502 | 232 | 14210 |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 377 | 556 | 9 | 942 |
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 2557 | 4585 | 95 | 7237 |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 566 | 1845 | 15 | 2426 |
| 16 | Karnataka | 6386 | 7683 | 226 | 14295 |
| 17 | Kerala | 2015 | 2152 | 22 | 4189 |
| 18 | Ladakh | 347 | 616 | 1 | 964 |
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh | 2607 | 10199 | 564 | 13370 |
| 20 | Maharashtra | 73313 | 88960 | 7610 | 169883 |
| 21 | Manipur | 733 | 494 | 0 | 1227 |
| 22 | Meghalaya | 4 | 42 | 1 | 47 |
| 23 | Mizoram | 93 | 55 | 0 | 148 |
| 24 | Nagaland | 266 | 168 | 0 | 434 |
| 25 | Odisha | 1890 | 4946 | 23 | 6859 |
| 26 | Puducherry | 388 | 221 | 10 | 619 |
| 27 | Punjab | 1516 | 3764 | 138 | 5418 |
| 28 | Rajasthan | 3637 | 13618 | 405 | 17660 |
| 29 | Sikkim | 38 | 50 | 0 | 88 |
| 30 | Tamil Nadu | 37334 | 47749 | 1141 | 86224 |
| 31 | Telangana | 9559 | 5582 | 253 | 15394 |
| 32 | Tripura | 294 | 1085 | 1 | 1380 |
| 33 | Uttarakhand | 681 | 2111 | 39 | 2831 |
| 34 | Uttar Pradesh | 6650 | 15506 | 672 | 22828 |
| 35 | West Bengal | 5535 | 11719 | 653 | 17907 |
| Cases being reassigned to states | 7004 | 7004 | |||
| Total# | 215125 | 334822 | 16893 | 566840 |
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