Toll due to COVID-19 rises to 1,075, cases at 33,610

Death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,075 and the number of cases climbed to 33,610 in the country on Thursday, registering an increase of 67 deaths and 1,823 cases since Wednesday evening, according to the Union health ministry.

IMAGE: City streets wear a deserted look, during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Coimbatore. Photograph: PTI Photo

The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 24,162, while 8,372 people have recovered, and one patient has migrated, the ministry said.

"Thus, 24.90 per cent patients have recovered so far," a senior health ministry official said.

The total number of cases include 111 foreign nationals.

IMAGE: People practice social distancing as they queue up to buy milk packets from a vendor, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Varanasi. Photograph: PTI Photo

A total of 67 deaths were reported since Wednesday evening of which 32 fatalities were from Maharashtra, 16 from Gujarat, 11 from Madhya Pradesh, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Tamil Nadu and Delhi and one from Karnataka.

Of the 1,075 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 432 fatalities, followed by Gujarat at 197, Madhya Pradesh at 130, Delhi at 56, Rajasthan at 51, Uttar Pradesh at 39 and Andhra Pradesh at 31.

The death toll reached 27 in Tamil Nadu, 26 in Telengana, 22 in West Bengal while Karantaka reported 21 deaths. Punjab has registered 19 fatalities so far. The disease has claimed eight lives in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Kerala, while Jharkhand and Haryana have recorded three COVID-19 deaths each.

IMAGE: An artist gives a final touch to a model based on coronavirus placed alongside a road to raise awareness in Chennai. Photograph: R Senthil Kumar/PTI Photo

Bihar has reported two deaths, while Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported one fatality each, according to the ministry data.

According to the health ministry data updated in the evening, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 9,915, followed by Gujarat at 4,082, Delhi at 3,439, Madhya Pradesh at 2,660, Rajasthan at 2,438, Uttar Pradesh at 2,203 and Tamil Nadu at 2,162.

The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 1,403 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,012 in Telangana.

IMAGE: Health workers wearing protective suits screen resident of Kumbharwada at Dharavi in Mumbai during a house-to-house health survey. Photograph: PTI Photo

The number of cases has risen to 758 in West Bengal, 581 in Jammu and Kashmir, 557 in Karnataka, 496 in Kerala, 403 in Bihar and 357 in Punjab.

Haryana has reported 310 coronavirus cases, while Odisha has 128 cases. A total 107 people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 56 in Chandigarh.

IMAGE: A healthcare worker takes blood sample of a policeman for COVID-19 test in Vijayawada. Photograph: PTI Photo

Uttarakhand has reported 55 cases, Assam has 42, Himachal Pradesh has 40, while Chhattisgarh have registered 38 infections each so far.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands has 33 COVID-19 cases while Ladakh has reported 22 infections so far. Meghalaya has reported 12 cases, Puducherry has eight cases while Goa has seven COVID-19 cases.

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Manipur and Tripura have two cases each, while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have reported a case each.

"Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research," the ministry said on its website adding, "280 cases are being assigned to states for contact tracing."

States wise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it said.