New Delhi: India's COVID-19 case tally crosses 7 lakh mark on Tuesday with 22,252 new cases in the last 24 hours.
The total positive cases stand at 7,19,665 including 2,59,557 active cases and 4,39,948 cured/discharged/migrated, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in its morning update.
With 467 deaths, the toll has risen to 20,160 in the country.
The total number of samples tested up to July 6 is 1,02,11,092 of which 2,41,430 samples were tested on Monday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) informed.
India is now is the third worst affected country after the US and Brazil. Its recovery rate is 60.86 per cent.
With a spike of more than 5,368 cases in just one day, Maharashtra remains the worst hit state with cases reaching up to 2,11,987 and 9,026 casualties so far, of which 204 occurred in the last 24 hours.
Tamil Nadu remained the second worst hit with a total of 1,14,978 cases, including 1,571 deaths.
With 1,379 fresh coronavirus cases and 48 deaths, the national capital surpassed the grim one lakh mark and mounted to 1,00,823 to remain the third worst hit.
States with more than 10,000 cases include Gujarat with 36,772 cases and 1,960 deaths, Uttar Pradesh (28,636), Rajasthan (20,688), Madhya Pradesh (15285), West Bengal (22,987), Haryana (17,504), Karnataka (25,317), Andhra Pradesh (20,019), Telangana (25,733) and Bihar (12,125) cases.
On Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 11,590,195 globally, while the fatalities rose to 537,429, the University's Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
