With more than 60,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Tuesday crossed the 31 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 58,000-mark as well. Total coronavirus cases in the worst-hit state of Maharashtra has crossed the 6.93 lakh-mark and registered 1,68,126 confirmed cases as of Tuesday. After Andhra Pradesh comes Karnataka, where the COVID-19 figure stands at 2,83,665 cases with 1,97,625 patients recovered, and 4,810 fatalities. Delhi has reported 1,62,527 positive cases so far of which 1,46,588 patients have recovered and 4,313 patients have lost their lives due to the virus. In Kerala, which reported the country's first COVID-19 case, 59,504 people have been detected positive for coronavirus so far.

Source: dna August 25, 2020 05:03 UTC