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Highest Single-Day Spike Of 13,586 New Cases Raise India's Covid-19 Tally To 380,532, Death Toll Surges To 12,573
Coronavirus Update (Swarajya Magazine)
With the highest single-day spike of 13,586 new cases in the last 24 hours, the Covid-19 tally in India has surged to 380,532, the Union Health Ministry data revealed on Friday (19 June).
According to the Health Ministry, of the total, 163,248 are active cases while at least 204,711 people have been cured of the disease.
The number of Covid-19 death toll in the country has increased from Wednesday's 12,337 to 12,573, an increase of 236 in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra, which has emerged as the worst Coronavirus-hit state in the country, has so far recorded 1,20,504 cases, including 5,751 fatalities, and 60,838 recoveries. Tamil Nadu followed with 52,334 cases. The Covid-19 tally in Delhi has crossed the 49,000-mark with as many as 49,979 cases recorded so far in the national capital. Gujarat has reported 25,601 cases so far.
States with most casualties after Maharashtra are Delhi (1,969), Gujarat (1,591), Tamil Nadu (625), West Bengal (518) and Madhya Pradesh (486).
States with more than 9,000 cases are Uttar Pradesh (15,181), Rajasthan (13,857), West Bengal (12,735) and Madhya Pradesh (11,426).
Among other states/UTs where Corona cases have surged past 2,000-mark are Haryana (9,218), Karnataka (7,944), Andhra Pradesh (7,518), Bihar (7,025), Telangana (6,027), Jammu and Kashmir (5,555), Assam (4,777), Odisha (4,512), Punjab (3,615), Kerala (2,794) and Uttarakhand (2,102).
According to the Health Ministry, 8,927 cases are being re-assigned to states.
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