- Out of 24,506 total cases, the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 18,668 while 5,062 people were cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, the ministry said.
- The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 775.
- According to the official data, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 6,817, followed by Gujarat at 2,815, Delhi at 2,514.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 18,668 while 5,062 people were cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 775.
The total number of cases include 77 foreign nationals.
According to the official data, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 6,817, followed by Gujarat at 2,815, Delhi at 2,514, Rajasthan at 2,034, Madhya Pradesh at 1,852 and Tamil Nadu at 1,755.
25 new
Rajasthan recorded 25 fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the state's infection tally to 2,059, an official said.
The state has so far seen 32 deaths due to COVID-19, with state capital Jaipur accounting for 18 deaths.
"As many as 25 fresh cases have been reported in six districts of the state. However, the growth rate curve of coronavirus cases in the state has flattened," Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Rohit Kumar Singh said.
Singh said that of the 25 fresh cases, eight were reported from Ajmer, five each from Jodhpur and Jhalawar, four from Kota, two in Dholpur, and one in Dungarpur.
A total of 2,059 cases of the virus have been reported in the state so far.
Indore's death toll rises to 57; cases jump to 1,085
The death toll due to coronavirus in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh, one of the COVID-19 hotspots in the country, has reached 57 with two more persons succumbing to the infection, an official said on Saturday.
Two men, aged 75 and 55, died due to COVID-19 in the last three days, Chief Medical and Health Officer Praveen Jadia said. One of them suffered from bronchitis, he added.
According to him, the number of coronavirus positive patients in the city has gone up to 1,085 after 56 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours.
Of them, 107 have recovered and returned home so far, Jadia added.
As per the data, the city's COVID-19 mortality rate stood at 5.25 per cent till Saturday morning, which is higher than the national average.
Seven more test positive for Coronavirus in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, total cases rise to 29
Seven more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory to 29, an official said on Saturday.
All of them are residents of the Bambooflat area in the south Andaman district, he said.
"Of the new cases, six are from one family, and all of them came in contact with a COVID-19 patient detected earlier," the official said.
All the patients are undergoing treatment at the GB Pant Hospital here, a health department official said.
Five cases were reported from the Bambooflat area on Thursday.
Last week, a 39-year-old police radio operator had tested positive for COVID-19 in the locality, which has now been declared a hotspot, and all the cases were either his family members or related to him.
Of the total cases reported in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, home to several vulnerable tribes, 18 are active now.
Eight new COVID-19 cases recorded in Maharashtra's Amravati
As many as eight persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra's Amravati city in 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases to 12 here, an official said on Saturday.
The city has recorded 16 coronavirus cases so far, of which four patients succumbed to the infection, while four others were discharged following a recovery on Friday, the official said.
The active cases include two men aged 65 and 45 years, who had come in contact with two women from Kamela Ground and Hyderpura localities who had tested positive for the infection post their death, a release here stated.
As of now, there are 12 active cases in the city, which has 26 containment zones.
Three staffers of civic bodies test positive for COVID-19 in Delhi
An assistant sanitary inspector from the north corporation and two sanitation workers from the south Delhi civic body have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Friday.
The 54-year-old North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) official is a resident of the Wazirpur JJ Colony and belonged to Rohini Zone. As many as 39 of his co-workers have been sent to home quarantine, they said.
Two sanitation workers, a man and a woman, of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) have also tested positive for coronavirus. While the man worked in Bhogal area, the woman worked in Tagore Garden, the officials said.
The male sanitation staff also suffers from liver-related issues. He was admitted to AIIMS on April 22 and is on ventilator support. He had attended duty only twice this month and was not posted in any hotspot area or engaged in disinfection work, they said.
The SDMC woman staffer has been admitted to LNJP Hospital. Nine of her colleagues have been asked to go for home isolation, according to the officials.
Jharkhand CM begins transferring cash in bank accounts of state's migrant workers
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday began the process of transferring cash in the bank accounts of the state's migrant workers stranded across the country following the nation-wide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus.
On the first day, ₹1000 each was transferred into the accounts of 1,11,568 migrant workers through the Chief Minister's Special Assistance Scheme mobile app.
Due to novel coronavirus, the migrant labourers of Jharkhand are stranded in various parts of the country. The state government has coordinated with the government officials of various states to provide ration and food grains for them," Soren said after the direct benefit transfer (DBT) of cash.
"Today, the assistance of ₹1000 has been made available to each of the stranded migrant labourers through the mobile app, he added.
The chief minister further said that till date 2,47,025 migrant workers of the state have registered with the app for financial support and so far various districts of Jharkhand approved the registration of 2,10,464 labourers.
Here are the latest number of cases across states as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare website.
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