396 cured in a day, rate of recovery stands at 20.8%

New Delhi: With 1,490 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, India is set to cross 25,000-mark as total COVID-19 cases climbed to 24,942 on Saturday, while the death toll stood at 779. Shockingly, India reported the highest 56 deaths in a day.

With 396 recoveries in a day, the rate of recovery stood at 20.8 per cent as total 5,210 patients have discharged from hospitals.

The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 18,953, while 5,210 people have been cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, it said, adding that the total number of cases includes 111 foreign nationals.

Of the total 56 deaths since Friday evening, 18 were in Maharashtra, 15 in Gujarat, nine in Madhya Pradesh, three each in Delhi and West Bengal, two each in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh and one each in Punjab and Kerala.

While of the total 779 COVID-19 deaths in the country, Maharashtra accounts for the highest number of 301 fatalities, followed by Gujarat (127), Madhya Pradesh (92), Delhi (53), Andhra Pradesh (31) and Rajasthan (27).

The death toll reached 26 in Uttar Pradesh as well as in Telangana, 22 in Tamil Nadu, while Karnataka and West Bengal have reported 18 deaths each, it said.

Punjab has registered 17 fatalities so far, Jammu and Kashmir five, Kerala four, while Jharkhand and Haryana have recorded three COVID-19 deaths each.

According to Health Ministry data, Bihar has reported two Coronavirus deaths, while Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported a fatality each.

According to the latest Health Ministry data, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country is from Maharashtra at 6,817, followed by Gujarat (2,815), Delhi (2,514), Rajasthan (2,034), Madhya Pradesh (1,952) and Uttar Pradesh (1,778).

The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 1,755 in Tamil Nadu, 1,061 in Andhra Pradesh and 984 in Telangana. The number of cases has risen to 571 in West Bengal, 489 in Karnataka, 454 in Jammu and Kashmir, 451 in Kerala, 298 in Punjab and 272 in Haryana.

Bihar has reported 228 Coronavirus cases, while Odisha has 94. Fifty-nine people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 48 in Uttarakhand.

Himachal Pradesh has 40 cases, while Chhattisgarh and Assam have registered 36 infections each. Chandigarh has 28 cases, while there are 27 COVID-19 patients in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

As per the Health Ministry data, 20 Coronavirus cases have been reported from Ladakh, 12 from Meghalaya, while Goa and Puducherry have registered seven COVID-19 cases each.

Manipur and Tripura have two Coronavirus patients each, while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have reported a case each.