India records 48,268 new coronavirus cases, pushes overall caseload beyond 81 lakh-mark
India on Saturday recorded at least 48,268 new coronavirus cases, pushing the overall caseload in the country beyond the 81 lakh-mark. About 81,37,119 people have been infected with the contagion so far, the data updated by the Union Health Ministry at 8 am today showed. With 551 more fatalities in the last 24 hours, the death toll has moved to 1,21,641. The number of active cases stood at 5,82,649 after a decrease of 11,737 in the last 24 hours. With 59,454 discharges during the last 24 hours, as many as 74,32,829 have recuperated of the highly-infectious virus till now.
The 551 new fatalities include 127 from Maharashtra, 59 from West Bengal, 49 each from Chhattisgarh and Karnataka, 47 from Delhi and 38 from Tamil Nadu. Of the total 1,21,641 deaths reported so far in the country, 43,837 are from Maharashtra, followed by 11,140 from Karnataka, 11,091 from Tamil Nadu, 7,007 from Uttar Pradesh, 6,784 from West Bengal, 6,676 from Andhra Pradesh, 6,470 from Delhi, 4,187 from Punjab and 3,711 from Gujarat. The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
CORONAVIRUS IN INDIA: A LOOK AT STATEWISE NUMBERS
| S. No. | Name of State / UT | Active Cases* | Cured/Discharged/Migrated* | Deaths** | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Change since yesterday | Cumulative | Change since yesterday | Cumulative | Change since yesterday | ||
| 1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 182 | 10 | 4076 | 22 | 59 | |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 25514 | 754 | 788375 | 3623 | 6676 | 17 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 1938 | 70 | 12777 | 154 | 37 | |
| 4 | Assam | 10421 | 717 | 194668 | 1094 | 926 | 3 |
| 5 | Bihar | 7897 | 161 | 206346 | 1238 | 1084 | 8 |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 657 | 8 | 13469 | 67 | 225 | |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 22350 | 19 | 160918 | 1650 | 2038 | 49 |
| 8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 49 | 3197 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 9 | Delhi | 32363 | 1411 | 342811 | 4433 | 6470 | 47 |
| 10 | Goa | 2405 | 31 | 40409 | 241 | 602 | 5 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 13168 | 64 | 154968 | 1027 | 3711 | 6 |
| 12 | Haryana | 11851 | 460 | 151839 | 1179 | 1777 | 11 |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 2891 | 123 | 18595 | 193 | 312 | 6 |
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 6835 | 93 | 86024 | 654 | 1471 | 5 |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 5196 | 98 | 95208 | 421 | 883 | |
| 16 | Karnataka | 59518 | 4981 | 749740 | 8521 | 11140 | 49 |
| 17 | Kerala | 90671 | 1218 | 332994 | 7828 | 1457 | 28 |
| 18 | Ladakh | 627 | 5493 | 55 | 74 | ||
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh | 9294 | 395 | 158455 | 1074 | 2941 | 12 |
| 20 | Maharashtra | 125971 | 2178 | 1503050 | 8241 | 43837 | 127 |
| 21 | Manipur | 4303 | 5 | 13805 | 222 | 164 | 4 |
| 22 | Meghalaya | 1170 | 156 | 8125 | 235 | 87 | |
| 23 | Mizoram | 437 | 2 | 2284 | 26 | 1 | |
| 24 | Nagaland | 1598 | 165 | 7308 | 212 | 39 | 4 |
| 25 | Odisha | 13500 | 264 | 273838 | 1800 | 1308 | 11 |
| 26 | Puducherry | 3739 | 19 | 30577 | 128 | 592 | |
| 27 | Punjab | 4101 | 165 | 124870 | 577 | 4187 | 19 |
| 28 | Rajasthan | 15251 | 303 | 178064 | 2087 | 1898 | 10 |
| 29 | Sikkim | 254 | 14 | 3591 | 33 | 68 | 1 |
| 30 | Tamil Nadu | 23532 | 1354 | 687388 | 3924 | 11091 | 38 |
| 31 | Telengana | 18409 | 47 | 218887 | 1486 | 1336 | 6 |
| 32 | Tripura | 1493 | 87 | 28878 | 141 | 346 | |
| 33 | Uttarakhand | 3634 | 89 | 57270 | 258 | 1011 | 2 |
| 34 | Uttar Pradesh | 24431 | 427 | 448644 | 2590 | 7007 | 24 |
| 35 | West Bengal | 36999 | 95 | 325888 | 4015 | 6784 | 59 |
| Total# | 582649 | 11737 | 7432829 | 59454 | 121641 | 551 | |
