With more than 55,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Tuesday crossed the 27 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 51,000-mark as well. Total coronavirus cases in the worst-hit state of Maharashtra has crossed the 6 lakh-mark and registered 6,04,358 confirmed cases as of Tuesday. After Andhra Pradesh comes Karnataka, where the COVID-19 figure stands at 2,33,283 cases with 1,48,562 patients recovered, and 4,071 fatalities. Delhi has reported 1,53,367 positive cases so far of which 1,38,301 patients have recovered and 4,214 patients have lost their lives due to the virus. In Kerala, which reported the country's first COVID-19 case, 46,140 people have been detected positive for coronavirus so far.

Source: dna August 18, 2020 05:26 UTC