Maha adds over 1K; Telangana joins the race
On a day the Centre announced lockdown extension by two weeks, the country saw its biggest single day surge of 2,300 plus new cases in just 12 hours on Friday with Maharashtra alone logging 1,008 new cases, taking the tally of cases to 11,506.
While 106 patients were discharged on Friday upon recovery, 26 Covid-19 patients died, the State Health Department said. The death toll in the State thus reached 485 and number of discharged patients reached 1,879.
Maharashtra continued to be the most affected State in the country with a total number of positive coronavirus cases jumping to 11,506 while the death toll stood at 485. For the first time Telangana became the latest State to cross more than 1,000 confirmed cases to touch at 1,044.
In terms of the cases reported, Maharashtra was followed by Gujarat at 4,721 cases with 236 deaths, Delhi at 3,738 cases and Madhya Pradesh at 2,719 cases and 137 deaths. Gujarat added 326 new cases, Delhi and MP 90 respectively.
The other States that have reported total cases in four digits were Rajasthan (2,642), Tamil Nadu (2,526) and Uttar Pradesh (2,328).
Tamil Nadu saw a major surge on Friday with day’s cases soaring by 203 and Punjab added 105 cases to follow a worrying trend following several Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchal Nagar Sahib pilgrims testing positive again on Friday.
In West Bengal, the official death count is 33 while the Government has said 72 others who had coronavirus and died, passed away because of their co-morbidities.
Among other major States, Andhra Pradesh has reported 1,463 cases and 33 deaths, Bihar stood at 426 cases and two deaths, Haryana at 313 and three deaths, Jammu & Kashmir at 614 cases and eight deaths, Karnataka at 576 and 22 deaths and Kerala clocked 497 cases and four deaths.
States and Union Territories which have reported less than 10 cases are Tripura, Mizoram, Puducherry, Manipur, Goa and Arunanchal Pradesh.
Globally, the novel coronavirus cases have surged past 3.3 million while more than 234,000 deaths were reported across the world. The number of infected people due to Covid-19 in the United States crossed one million and the fatalities rose past 63,000. The US is currently the hardest hit country in the world in terms of total number of cases recorded followed by Spain (239,639) and Italy (205,463).