As India entered day 5 of 21-day lockdown imposed by the government to fightthe novel coronavirus 2019 outbreak inthe country, the number of confirmed cases rose to 1,024 including 48 foreign nationals on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Of them, 95 have been cured or discharged with one migrated case.
The total number of active cases in the country rose to 901, while 96 patients have been cured and discharged, including one migratedpatient. Maharashtra is the worsthit state and has reported 186 coronavirus positive cases, followed by Kerala at 182.
The number of deaths due tothe infection stood at 27. Deaths have so far been reported from Maharashtra (6), Gujarat (5), Karnataka (3), Madhya Pradesh (2), Delhi (2), Jammu and Kashmir (2) and one each from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal, and Himachal Pradesh.
Here is a state-wise tally of the coronavirus outbreak in India:
Andaman & Nicobar: 9
Andhra Pradesh 19
Bihar 11
Chandigarh 8
Chhattisgarh 7
Delhi 49
Goa 5
Gujarat 58
Haryana 33
Himachal Pradesh 3
Jammu & Kashmir 31
Karnataka 76
Kerala 182
Ladakh 13
Madhya Pradesh 30
Maharashtra 186
Manipur 1
Mizoram 1
Odisha 3
Puducherry 1
Punjab 38
Rajasthan 55
Tamil Nadu 45
Telangana 66
Uttar Pradesh 65
Uttarakhand 7
West Bengal 18
Globally, the death toll from coronavirus has crossed 31,000 with Italy seeing the highest casualties. Spain on Sunday registered 838 new deaths over the past 24 hours, and the number of cases has climbed by about 6,500 over the given period.
Confirmed coronavirusrelated deaths in the US doubled in two days, surpassing 2,000 on Saturday.
Italy reported 889 deaths in a 24-hour period ending Saturday evening in thecountry, compared to 969 a day earlier, which wasa oneday high in the country which has the world’s highestnumber of deaths of persons with confirmedcases of the coronavirus. The day-to-day rise in new cases was just under 6,000, about the same as the previous day’s figure.
China reported fivedeaths and 45 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the 24 hours through midnight Saturday. All the deaths were in Hubei province, where the virusfirst emerged in Dec. The country’s health authorities said all but one of the new cases were people who were infected abroad.
