Confirmed Corona Cases Rise to 1,330 in India

New Delhi: Following the sharpest single-day spike in India, the total number of the novel coronavirus cases has climbed to 1,360 after over 30 fresh cases were recorded today. The death toll due to Covid-19, meanwhile, has climbed to 40.

India has seen an increase of over 200 cases in a single day while the number of active cases is around 1,120 with 101 people either been cured or discharged.

Maharashtra has reported the most deaths (10), followed by Gujarat (6), Karnataka (3) Madhya Pradesh (3), Delhi (2) and Jammu and Kashmir (2). Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have reported a death each. On Tuesday, another death was reported in Kerala after a 68-year-old died in Thiruvananthapuram. In West Bengal, a woman infected with the coronavirus died at a hospital in West Bengal’s Howrah, taking the total number of Covid-19 deaths to three in the state.

So far, the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases have been reported from Kerala with 234 infections, followed by Maharashtra at 230 which recorded 10 fresh cases on Tuesday. The number of cases in Delhi, meanwhile, has gone up to 97.