The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,547 in the country on Friday while the death toll rose to 62, registering a jump of 478 cases, according to Union health ministry data.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 2,322, while162 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated, the ministrystated.
In an updated data at 6 pm, six fresh deaths were reported.Four were from Telengana and one each from Gujarat and Punjab.Maharashtra has reported the most number ofdeaths (16) so far, followed by Gujarat (8), Telengana (7), Madhya Pradesh (6),Punjab (5), Delhi (4), Karnataka (3), West Bengal (3), Jammu and Kashmir (2),Uttar Pradesh (2) and Kerala (2).