coronaviru update live | corona news | coronavirus india update | covid-19 Coronavirus Cases in India Latest Updates: Highest ever spike of 6767 COVID-19 cases 147 deaths in India have been recorded in the last 24 hours. As per the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of cases in the country is 1,31,868, including 73,560 active cases. As many as 54,440 patients have been cured/discharged and 3867 have died, the ministry said today. The ministry’s bulletin today said that active COVID-19 cases in India have jumped to 73,560, 54,440 people have recovered and, one patient has migrated to another country, according to the ministry bulletin. “Thus, around 41.28 per cent patients have recovered so far,” PTI quoted a Health Ministry official as saying.

The total number of confirmed cases in India also includes foreigners. As per the ministry bulletin, of the 147 deaths reported since Saturday morning, 60 were in Maharashtra, 27 in Gujarat, 23 in Delhi, nine in Madhya Pradesh, seven in Rajasthan, five in Tamil Nadu, four each in West Bengal and Telangana, three in Uttar Pradesh, and one each in Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand. Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,577 deaths, followed by Gujarat at 829, Madhya Pradesh at 281, West Bengal at 269 and Delhi at 231. The number of deaths due to the contagion in Rajasthan is 160, while 155 people died in Uttar Pradesh, 103 in Tamil Nadu and 56 in Andhra Pradesh. Over 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities.