Covid deaths surged in the country with five major states reporting their highest daily toll from the pandemic on Tuesday even as the count of fresh cases rose again after dipping for three days in a row.
India recorded 3,460 deaths in the last 24 hours, with data from Delhi not been released till way past midnight for the first time this year. The capital had recorded more than 400 deaths each in the previous two days. The highest daily death toll from the pandemic was 3,728 reported on Saturday.
Even without data from Delhi, the day’s case count had shot past Monday’s count of 3.56 lakh, with 3,62,577 new infections reported in the country. On Monday, the capital had logged 18,043 fresh cases. Daily cases have remained higher than 3.5 lakh for the last eight days, with a peak of 4,02,351 recorded on April 30.
The Maharashtra Health Department on Monday evening reported 51,751 new cases of Covid-19 in the state, taking the total number of active cases to 5,64,746. Pune district with 1,10,000 cases is highes
Maharashtra reported 6,112 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total infection count to 2,087,632, the state health department said. 44 fresh deaths took the toll to 51,713. Over 2,100 people have been recovered or discharged in the same period. The case fatality rate in the state stands at 2.48 per cent. The recovery rate is at 95.3 per cent. As on Friday, the state has 44,765 active cases and currently 224,087 people are in home quarantine, according to the state health deapertment. Meanwhile Mumbai on Friday added 823 new coronavirus cases, the highest single-day spike in infections since December last year, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.