The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,223 and the number of cases climbed to 37,776 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 71 deaths and a record jump of 2,411 cases in 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 26,565, while10,017 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said.
“Thus, around 26.52 per cent patients have recovered sofar,” a senior health ministry official said.
The total number of cases includes 111 foreign nationals.
A total of 71 deaths werereported since Friday evening — 26 from Maharashtra, 22 from Gujarat, eightfrom Madhya Pradesh, four from Rajasthan, three from Karnataka, two each fromDelhi and Uttar Pradesh and one each from Bihar, Haryana, Punjab and TamilNadu.
Of the 1,223 deaths, Maharashtra accounts for the maximumwith 485 fatalities, followed by Gujarat (236), Madhya Pradesh (145), Rajasthan(62), Delhi (61), Uttar Pradesh (43) and West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh at 33each.
The death toll reached 28 in Tamil Nadu, 26 in Telangana,while Karantaka has reported 25 fatalities due to the disease.
Punjab has registered 20 COVID-19 deaths, Jammu and Kashmireight, Kerala and Haryana have reported four deaths each, and Jharkhand andBihar have recorded three COVID-19 deaths each.
Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reporteda fatality each, according to the ministry data.
According to the healthministry data updated in the evening, the highest number of confirmed cases inthe country is from Maharashtra at 11,506, followed by Gujarat (4,721), Delhi(3,738), Madhya Pradesh (2,719), Rajasthan (2,666), Tamil Nadu (2,526) andUttar Pradesh (2,455).
The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 1,525 in AndhraPradesh and 1,057 in Telangana.
It has risen to 795 in West Bengal, 772 in Punjab, 639 inJammu and Kashmir, 598 in Karnataka, 498 in Kerala and 471 in Bihar.
Haryana has reported 360 coronavirus cases, while Odisha has154 cases. A total of 111 people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhandand 88 in Chandigarh.
Uttarakhand has reported 58 cases, Assam and Chhattisgarhhave 43 cases each, while Himachal Pradesh has registered 40 cases so far.
Thirty-three COVID-19cases have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, while Ladakh hasrecorded 22 cases of the infection.
Meghalaya has reported 12 cases, Puducherry eight while Goahas seven COVID-19 cases.
Manipur and Tripura have two cases each, while Mizoram andArunachal Pradesh have reported a case each.
“Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR,” the ministry said on its website, adding, “179 cases are being assigned to states for contact tracing.”