New Delhi: With the highest single-day spike of 32,695 cases and 606 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 tally on Thursday reached 9,68,876, informed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.
The total number of COVID-19 cases includes 3,31,146 active cases, 6,12,815 cured/discharged/migrated and 24,915 deaths.
As per the Ministry, Maharashtra — the worst-affected state from the infection — has a total of 2,75,640 COVID-19 cases and 10,928 fatalities. While Tamil Nadu has a tally of 1,51,820 cases and 2,167 deaths due to COVID-19.
Delhi has reported a total of 1,16,993 cases and 3,487 deaths due to COVID-19.
Meanwhile, as per the information provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1,27,39,490 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till 15th July, of these 3,26,826 samples were tested yesterday. (ANI)