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New Delhi: The novel coronavirus death toll rose to 7745 in India on Tuesday with 279 more fatalities, while 9,985 new cases took the number of infections to 2,76,583 the Health Ministry said.
India is the fifth worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia and the UK, according to data issued by the Johns Hopkins University.
The active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) climbed to 1,33,632 and as many as 1,35, 206 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, according to the data. It may be noted here that for the first time, the number of recovery cases have surpassed the number of active cases in the country.
India reports 9985 new #COVID19 cases & 279 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Total number of cases- 276583
Active cases- 133632
Recoveries- 135206
Deaths- 7745-- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare pic.twitter.com/Sjpe1bA3SQ
— OTV (@otvnews) June 10, 2020
"Thus, 48.99 per cent of the patients have recovered so far," it said.
The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.
Of the 279 new deaths reported, 120 were in Maharashtra, 33 in Gujarat, 31 in Delhi, 21 in Tamil Nadu, 18 in Uttar Pradesh, 11 in Telangana, 10 in West Bengal, nine in Rajasthan, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, three in Jammu and Kashmir, two in Punjab, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, and one each in Bihar, Jharkhand and Tripura.
Out of the total 7,745 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,289 deaths, followed by Gujarat with 1,313, Delhi with 905, Madhya Pradesh with 420, West Bengal with 415, Tamil Nadu with 307, Uttar Pradesh with 301, Rajasthan with 255 and Telangana with 148 deaths.
The death toll reached 77 in Andhra Pradesh, 66 in Karnataka and 55 in Punjab.
Jammu and Kashmir has reported 48 fatalities due to the disease, while 45 deaths have been reported from Haryana, 32 from Bihar, 16 from Kerala, 13 from Uttarakhand, nine from Odisha, eight from Jharkhand and six from Chhattisgarh.
Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh have registered five COVID-19 fatalities each and Assam has recorded four deaths so far.
Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh have reported one COVID-19 fatality each, according to the ministry data. More than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, the health ministry's website stated.
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