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India’s tally of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus exceeded 10 lakh on Thursday with Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh among other states reporting spikes in the number of new cases.

As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s COVID bulletin on the morning of July 16, India had 9,68,876 confirmed cases. This figure was inclusive of 3,31,146 active cases and 6,12,815 recoveries along with 24,915 casualties. Maharashtra leads with the most number of confirmed cases followed by Tamil Nadu and Delhi.

Data indicates that the Health Departments of various state governments collectively recorded more than a lakh new cases in the last four days, pushing India’s tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases beyond the 10-lakh mark.

Maharashtra reported 8641 new cases on Thursday. With this development, the state now has 2,84,281 confirmed cases. Mumbai accounts for 23,694 cases on July 16.

The state with the second-highest number of confirmed cases in India, Tamil Nadu reported a spike of 4549 in its tally of confirmed cases. Now, there are 46,714 active cases in the state.

Uttar Pradesh government’s Health Department also informed reporters that it detected 2061 new cases across the state in the last 24 hours. The state’s tally of confirmed cases now stands at 43,444. This figure is inclusive of 15,723 active cases to date.

Similarly, the state of Andhra Pradesh reported 2593 new cases, West Bengal 1690 fresh cases and Delhi another 1652 cases on Thursday. Gujarat accounted for 919 fresh cases, Bihar another 1385 cases, and Jammu and Kashmir 493 new cases. Telangana also reported 1676 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on July 16.

Karnataka also accounted for a massive spike in new cases with 4169 new cases.

India saw a record single-day jump of 32,695 COVID-19 cases pushing its tally to 9,68,876 on Thursday, while the death toll climbed to 24,915 with 606 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

This is the first day that COVID-19 cases in India have increased by more than 30,000.

The number of recoveries stands at 6,12,815, while there are 3,31,146 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country, the updated data at 8 am showed.

“Thus, around 63.24 per cent of patients have recovered so far,” an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.

谷歌计划未来五至七年投资印度100亿美元，以协助这个国家加速数字转型。

出身印度的谷歌母公司字母总执行长皮查伊，在该公司一年一度的Google for India活动上，透过视讯宣布这项消息。

他表示，2019冠状病毒病疫情的爆发，已让人们明白科技在经营事业和联系亲友上的重要性。

他说，这个“印度数位化基金”（India Digitization Fund），反映了他们对于印度和该国数位经济未来的信心。

谷歌表示，这项投资将聚焦于下列几个重要领域：

●提供所有印度民众负担得起的管道，获得他们自己母语版本的资讯，包括印地语、坦米尔语和旁遮普语

●建立符合印度独特需求的新产品和服务

●协助企业继续或着手数位转型

●在公共财方面发挥科技和人工智能（AI）的力量，例如在医疗、教育和农业等领域