India on Monday recorded 37,148 fresh cases of COVID infections taking the total of positive cases to 11.5 lakh. In last 24 hours, India reported 587 fatalities taking the total death toll to 28,084.
Of the total 28,084 deaths reported so far, Maharashtra accounted for the highest 12,030 fatalities followed by Delhi with 3,663 deaths, Tamil Nadu 2,551, Gujarat 2,162, Karnataka 1,403, Uttar Pradesh 1,192, West Bengal 1,147, Madhya Pradesh 738 and Andhra Pradesh 696.
There are 4.02,529 active cases in the country, while 7,24,577 people have recovered and one person has migrated. The recovery rate stands at 62.72%. In past 24 hours, 24,491 patients recovered, LiveMint reported.
Maharashtra has reported the highest number of cases at 3,18,695 followed by Tamil Nadu at 1,75,678, Delhi at 1,23,747, Karnataka at 67,420, Andhra Pradesh at 53,724, Uttar Pradesh at 51,160, Gujarat at 49,353 and Telangana at 46,274.
As the cases are on a rapid surge in Delhi, the Northern Railway has offered to provide 503 isolation coaches which equate to 8,048 beds as COVID care centres at nine different stations of Delhi on the request of the government, a Delhi based news agency ANI reported.
Pertinently, India is the third country to record more than one million coronavirus cases, preceded by the United States and Brazil.
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