The country has recorded the biggest single-day spike of 6,088 COVID19 cases, while the death toll due to the virus has climbed to 3,583, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
The number of coronavirus cases now stands at 1,18,447 in the country.
There has been an increase of 148 deaths and 6,088 cases since Thursday 8 am, according to the Health Ministry.
The number of active COVID19 cases stood at 66,330, while 48,533 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said.
“Thus, around 40.97 per cent patients have recovered so far,” a senior health ministry official said.
The total confirmed cases includes foreigners.
Of the 148 deaths reported since Thursday morning, 64 were in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, 18 from Delhi, 11 from Uttar Pradesh, seven from Tamil Nadu, six from West Bengal, five from Telangana, four from Rajasthan, three from Madhya Pradesh, two from Jammu and Kashmir and one each from Bihar, Odisha, Haryana and Punjab.
The death toll reached 45 in Telangana, 41 in Karnataka and 39 in Punjab.
Jammu and Kashmir has reported 20 fatalities due to the disease, Haryana has 15 deaths while Bihar has registered 11 and Odisha seven deaths.Kerala and Assam have reported four deaths each so far.
Jharkhand, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh each have recorded three COVID-19 fatalities each, while Meghalaya and Uttarakhand have reported one fatality each, according to the ministry data.
More than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, the ministry said. State-wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it said.