India has now surpassed Spain to become the fifth worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic. The country once again recorded the biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has informed that 9,971 new COVID-19 infections were reported in the country in the past 24 hours ending Sunday morning. The addition of the fresh cases has taken the coronavirus case tally in India to 2,46,628.
India’s death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 6,92, with a record increase of 287 deaths in the 24 hours till Sunday 8 AM.
| S. No. | Name of State / UT | Active Cases* | Cured/Discharged/Migrated* | Deaths** | Total Confirmed cases* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 0 | 33 | 0 | 33 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 1817 | 2620 | 73 | 4510 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 46 | 1 | 0 | 47 |
| 4 | Assam | 1846 | 547 | 4 | 2397 |
| 5 | Bihar | 2460 | 2425 | 30 | 4915 |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 31 | 273 | 5 | 309 |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 653 | 266 | 4 | 923 |
| 8 | Dadar Nagar Haveli | 18 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| 9 | Delhi | 16229 | 10664 | 761 | 27654 |
| 10 | Goa | 202 | 65 | 0 | 267 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 5057 | 13316 | 1219 | 19592 |
| 12 | Haryana | 1794 | 2134 | 24 | 3952 |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 201 | 194 | 5 | 400 |
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 2302 | 1126 | 39 | 3467 |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 520 | 473 | 7 | 1000 |
| 16 | Karnataka | 3186 | 1968 | 59 | 5213 |
| 17 | Kerala | 1030 | 762 | 15 | 1807 |
| 18 | Ladakh | 50 | 48 | 1 | 99 |
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh | 2721 | 6108 | 399 | 9228 |
| 20 | Maharashtra | 42609 | 37390 | 2969 | 82968 |
| 21 | Manipur | 105 | 52 | 0 | 157 |
| 22 | Meghalaya | 19 | 13 | 1 | 33 |
| 23 | Mizoram | 23 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
| 24 | Nagaland | 107 | 0 | 0 | 107 |
| 25 | Odisha | 1057 | 1716 | 8 | 2781 |
| 26 | Puducherry | 63 | 36 | 0 | 99 |
| 27 | Punjab | 373 | 2092 | 50 | 2515 |
| 28 | Rajasthan | 2599 | 7501 | 231 | 10331 |
| 29 | Sikkim | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 30 | Tamil Nadu | 13506 | 16395 | 251 | 30152 |
| 31 | Telangana | 1663 | 1710 | 123 | 3496 |
| 32 | Tripura | 574 | 173 | 0 | 747 |
| 33 | Uttarakhand | 869 | 423 | 11 | 1303 |
| 34 | Uttar Pradesh | 3828 | 5648 | 257 | 9733 |
| 35 | West Bengal | 4236 | 3119 | 383 | 7738 |
| Cases being reassigned to states | 8605 | 8605 | |||
| Total | 120406 | 119293 | 6929 | 246628 |
India is now the fifth worst-affected nation in terms of coronavirus cases after the US, Brazil, Russia, and the UK, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
As per the ministry’s data, the number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 1,20,406. A total of 1,19,292 people have recovered and one patient has migrated.
“Thus, around 48.36 per cent patients have recovered so far,” a senior ministry official said.
498 new cases, 29 deaths take Guj COVID-19 numbers to 19,617; fatalities at 1,219
