New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 in the country rose to 1,783 while the number of cases climbed to 52,952 on Thursday, registering an increase of 89 deaths and 3,561 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 35,902 while 15,266 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said.
"Thus, around 28.83 per cent patients have recovered so far," a senior health ministry official said.
The total number of cases also include 111 foreign nationals.
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1,083 new positive cases in Kerala on Tuesday, 1,021 recover
Of the new cases, 902 contracted the disease through contact while 51 came from abroad while 64 came from other states.
Among the contact cases, the source of infection of 71 is yet to be identified.
The state has reported 27,956 COVID-19 cases so far, out of which 16,303 persons recovered. The remaining 11,540 patients are being treated in various hospitals.
With the state confirming three more deaths, the death toll due to the disease rose to 87.
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The Kerala unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asking him not to entrust the job of contact tracing of COVID patients to the police. It said this job should be done by experts in the field of medicine.
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Kerala Minister of Forests K Raju tests COVID-19 negative
The Minister, his gunman, and driver tested negative for the coronavirus on Tuesday.
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The Minister, his gunman, and driver tested negative for the coronavirus on Tuesday.
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Sixty more people, including 13 security personnel and four health workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking the northeastern state's caseload to 1,752 on Tuesday.
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805 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi take tally to 1,38,482; death toll up by 17 to 4,021: Authorities.
Data analysis by Shamika Ravi, former member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, shows active cases are now growing at 6.6% -- so doubling every 11 days.
According to her analysis, fresh cases are mainly coming from Maharashtra, Delhi and Gujarat. A big second wave in cases is being seen in Tamil Nadu but there are large recoveries in the state too.
On the COVID death rate per million people parameter, five states are pulling up the national average -- Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.
On the death rate per million count, Delhi has managed to stabilize its death rate despite high case load, while West Bengal is seeing a large increase, according to Ravi's data analysis.
A total of 89 deaths have been reported since Wednesday morning, of which 34 people died in Maharashtra, 28 in Gujarat, nine in Madhya Pradesh, four each in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, three in Rajasthan, two each from Punjab and Tamil Nadu and one each from Delhi, Haryana and Orissa, according to the Health Ministry.
Of the 1,783 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 651 fatalities, Gujarat comes second with 396 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 185, West Bengal at 144, Rajasthan at 92, Delhi at 65, Uttar Pradesh at 60 and Andhra Pradesh at 36.
The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 35 in Tamil Nadu while Telangana and Karnataka have reported 29 fatalities each due to the disease. Punjab has registered 27 COVID-19 deaths, Jammu and Kashmir eight and Haryana seven.Kerala and Bihar have reported four deaths each.
Jharkhand has recorded three COVID-19 fatalities. Odisha and Himachal Pradesh have reported two deaths each.
Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Assam and Uttarakhand have reported one fatality each, according to the ministry data.
According to the health ministry data updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 16,758 followed by Gujarat at 6,625, Delhi at 5,532, Tamil Nadu at 4,829, Rajasthan at 3,317, Madhya Pradesh at 3,138 and Uttar Pradesh at 2,998.
The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 1,777 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,516 in Punjab.It has risen to 1,456 in West Bengal, 1,107 in Telangana, 775 in Jammu and Kashmir, 693 in Karnataka, 594 in Haryana and 542 in Bihar.
Kerala has reported 503 coronavirus cases so far, while Odisha has 185 cases. A total of 127 people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 120 in Chandigarh.
Uttarakhand has reported 61 cases, Chhattisgarh has 59 cases, Assam and Himachal Pradesh have 45 each, Tripura has 43 and Ladakh has registered 41 cases so far.
As many as 33 COVID-19 cases have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Meghalaya has registered 12 cases, Puducherry has nine, while Goa has seven COVID-19 cases.
Manipur has two cases. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli have reported a case each.
"Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR," the ministry said on its website.
State-wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it said.
(With PTI inputs)
