Coronavirus cases have crossed the 3,00,000 threshold in India after new numbers from Maharashtra and other states came in today. The official number of total coronavirus cases, however, remains at 2.97 lakh as the Union Health Ministry’s data dashboard is updated in the morning.
The first Covid-19 case in India was reported on January 30 in Kerala. It took India more than 100 days to reach the 1 lakh-mark on May 18. The 2 lakh-mark was breached a fortnight later on June 2. The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country crossed 3 lakh in just 10 days.
In Delhi, a record number of 2,137 new cases were detected to take its tally to 36,824, while its death toll rose to 1,214, authorities said.
Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, saw its own tally cross the 1-lakh mark after 3,493 new cases were reported to take its total to 1,01,141, while its death toll rose to 3,717.
The state also reported a large number of recoveries. As many as 126 cancer patients, who had tested Covid-19 positive, have also recovered in Mumbai itself.
In Tamil Nadu, another badly hit state, the tally saw a record one-day jump of 1,982 cases to cross the 40,000-mark, while the toll reached 367.
Gujarat reported 495 new cases and 31 more fatalities, taking its case count to 22,562 and the death toll to 1,416.
Uttar Pradesh reported 20 more Covid-19 deaths and 528 fresh cases, the biggest single-day spike so far for the state. This took the state’s death toll to 365 and the case count to 12,616. However, more than 7,600 people have recovered already, giving a recovery rate of over 60 per cent.
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