India registers 37,724 new COVID-19 cases; tally climbs to 11,92,915
PTI, Jul 22, 2020, 10:31 AM IST
New Delhi: India added 37,724 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday pushing the country’s tally to 11,92,915, while recoveries surged to 7,53,049 with 28,472 people having recuperated in a day, the highest so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
The death toll due to the disease rose to 28,732 with 648 people succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
There are 4,11,133 active cases of coronavirus infection present in the country, while 7,53,049 people have recovered so far.
Thus 63.13 percent of people have recovered. The total number of confirmed cases includes foreigners.
This is the seventh consecutive day when COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 30,000.
Of the 648 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 246 are from Maharashtra, 75 from Tamil Nadu, 62 from Andhra Pradesh, 61 from Karnataka, 37 from Uttar Pradesh, 35 from West Bengal, 34 from Gujarat, 27 from Delhi, 18 from Madhya Pradesh, 9 each from Haryana, Jammu, and Kashmir and Rajasthan.
Telangana has reported seven fatalities each followed by Odisha with six deaths, Chhattisgarh four, Goa three, Jharkhand two while Kerala, Puducherry, Punjab, and Tripura have registered a fatality each.
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