The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 872 and the number ofcases climbed to 27,892 in the country on Monday, according to the Union HealthMinistry.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 20,835 while6,184 people were cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, theministry said.
The total number of cases include 111 foreign nationals.
A total of 46 deaths were reported since Sunday evening ofwhich 19 fatalities were reported from Maharashtra, 18 from Gujarat, four fromMadhya Pradesh, two from West Bengal and one each from Punjab, Karnataka andTamil Nadu.
Of the 872 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 342fatalities, followed by Gujarat at 151, Madhya Pradesh at 103, Delhi at 54,Rajasthan at 33 and Andhra Pradesh at 31.
The death toll reached 29 in Uttar Pradesh, 26 in Telengana,24 in Tamil Nadu, 20 in West Bengal while Karantaka has reported 19 deaths.
Punjab has registered 18 fatalities so far. The disease hasclaimed six lives in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Kerala while Jharkhand andHaryana have recorded three COVID-19 deaths each.
Bihar has reported two deaths, while Meghalaya, HimachalPradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported one fatality each, according toministry data.
According to the ministry’s data updated in the morning, thehighest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 8,068followed by Gujarat at 3,301, Delhi at 2,918, Rajasthan at 2,185, MadhyaPradesh at 2,096 and Tamil Nadu at 1,885.
The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 1,868 in UttarPradesh, 1,097 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,002 in Telangana.
Cases have risen to 649 in West Bengal, 523 in Jammu andKashmir, 503 in Karnataka, 458 in Kerala, 313 in Punjab and 289 in Haryana.
Bihar has reported 274 coronavirus cases, while Odisha has103 cases.Eighty-two people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and50 in Uttarakhand. Himachal Pradesh has 40 cases, Chhattisgarh has 37 cases andAssam has registered 36 infections each so far.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands has 33 COVID-19 cases whileChandigarh has 30 cases and Ladakh has reported 20 infections so far.
Meghalaya has reported 12 cases, and Goa and Puducherry haveseven COVID-19 cases each. Manipur and Tripura have two cases each, whileMizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have reported a case each.
“Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR,”the ministry said on its website. States wise distribution is subject tofurther verification and reconciliation, it said.