With another big single-day jump in coronavirus cases, India's Covid-19 tally crossed the 700,000 mark on Monday, just four days after the number of infections in the country had reached 600,000. The death toll due to the disease climbed to over 20,000, while the total number of tests for detection of Covid-19 also crossed the 10 million mark in India on Monday.
According to Union health ministry figures, a big single-day jump of 24,248 Covid-19 cases took India's tally to 6,97,413, while the death toll due to the disease climbed to 19,693 with 425 new fatalities. However, another report showed India's caseload at 7,11,878 and the death toll at 20,139. The tally has been compiled as per information provided by respective states and Union territories. The country recorded over 20,000 cases of the infection for the fourth consecutive day on Monday.
India went past Russia on Sunday to become the third worst-hit nation. Only the US and Brazil are ahead of India in terms of total coronavirus infections. Cases have been consistently rising in the country. It took 110 days for cases in the country to reach 100,000, while just 48 days more to go past the 700,000-mark.
Of the 19,693 deaths reported so far, Maharashtra accounts for 8,822 deaths, followed by Delhi (3,067), Gujarat (1,943), Tamil Nadu (1,510), Uttar Pradesh (785), West Bengal (757), Madhya Pradesh (608), Rajasthan (456) and Karnataka (372). The death toll reached 295 in Telangana, 265 in Haryana, 232 in Andhra Pradesh, 164 in Punjab, 132 in Jammu and Kashmir, 95 in Bihar, 42 in Uttarakhand, 36 in Odisha and 25 in Kerala. Jharkhand has registered 19 deaths, Chhattisgarh and Assam have reported 14 deaths each, Puducherry has recorded 12, Himachal Pradesh 11, Goa seven, Chandigarh has registered six deaths, and Meghalaya, Tripura, Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh have reported one fatality each, according to the ministry.
