India has yet again witnessed its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases with 49,310 cases reported in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. With these fresh cases, India's coronavirus cases tally has gone up to 12,87,945, out of which there are 4,40,135 active cases and 8,17,209 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated. Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with 3,47,502 cases reported until Thursday. While Tamil Nadu has a tally of 1,92,964 cases and 3,232 deaths due to COVID-19, Delhi has reported a total of 1,27,364 cases and 3,745 deaths due to the virus. Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that 1,54,28,170 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 22, of these 3,52,801 samples were tested on July 23.

Source: dna July 24, 2020 04:52 UTC