India records highest single-day spike with 17,296 new COVID-19 cases; tally crosses 4.90 lakh

Coronavirus tally in India has crossed 4.90 lakh-mark on Friday with over 17,000 new cases. As per the Ministry of Health data total confirmed cases stands at 4,90,401, including 1,89,463 active cases, 2,85,637 recovered and 15,301 deaths. 

India records highest single-day spike with 17,296 new COVID-19 cases; tally crosses 4.90 lakh

Coronavirus tally in India has crossed 4.90 lakh-mark on Friday with over 17,000 new cases. As per the Ministry of Health data total confirmed cases stands at 4,90,401, including 1,89,463 active cases, 2,85,637 recovered and 15,301 deaths. 

With 407 deaths and 17,296 new COVID19 positive cases, India recorded the highest single-day spike in the last 24 hours. 

Maharashtra continues to be the worst-hit state in India with over 1.47 coronavirus cases and nearly 7,000 deaths while Delhi has reported more than 73,000 COVID cases and over 2,400 fatalities. Nearly 71,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in Tamil Nadu, which is the third worst-hit followed by Gujarat being the fourth worst-hit state in India with nearly 30,000 coronavirus cases and over 1,700 fatalities.

Here's the state-wise tally of coronavirus cases across India:

S. No. Name of State / UT Active Cases* Cured/Discharged/Migrated* Deaths** Total Confirmed cases*
1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 16 43 0 59
2 Andhra Pradesh 5760 4988 136 10884
3 Arunachal Pradesh 121 38 1 160
4 Assam 2279 4033 9 6321
5 Bihar 1975 6441 57 8473
6 Chandigarh 88 329 6 423
7 Chhattisgarh 685 1755 12 2452
8 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 123 32 0 155
9 Delhi 26586 44765 2429 73780
10 Goa 658 335 2 995
11 Gujarat 6269 21498 1753 29520
12 Haryana 4885 7380 198 12463
13 Himachal Pradesh 353 477 9 839
14 Jammu and Kashmir 2492 3967 90 6549
15 Jharkhand 645 1605 12 2262
16 Karnataka 3720 6670 170 10560
17 Kerala 1761 1943 22 3726
18 Ladakh 582 358 1 941
19 Madhya Pradesh 2435 9619 542 12596
20 Maharashtra 63357 77453 6931 147741
21 Manipur 702 354 0 1056
22 Meghalaya 3 42 1 46
23 Mizoram 115 30 0 145
24 Nagaland 195 160 0 355
25 Odisha 1654 4291 17 5962
26 Puducherry 306 187 9 502
27 Punjab 1457 3192 120 4769
28 Rajasthan 3077 12840 379 16296
29 Sikkim 46 39 0 85
30 Tamil Nadu 30067 39999 911 70977
31 Telangana 6446 4688 230 11364
32 Tripura 270 1019 1 1290
33 Uttarakhand 897 1758 36 2691
34 Uttar Pradesh 6463 13119 611 20193
35 West Bengal 4852 10190 606 15648
  Cases being reassigned to states 8123     8123
  Total# 189463 285637 15301 490401

States/UTs where corona cases have surged past 2,000-mark are Bihar with  8,473 cases, Jammu and Kashmir with 6,549 cases, Assam with 6,321 cases, Odisha with 5,962, Punjab with 4,769 cases, Kerala with 3,726, Uttarakhand with 2,691 cases, Chhattisgarh with 2,452 cases and Jharkhand with 2,262 cases.

Meanwhile, a total of 77,76,228 COVID-19 samples were tested in India so far out of which 215446 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, as per ICMR data.

The recovery rate in India stands at 58.24 percent.

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