With more than 64,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Wednesday crossed the 27.67 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 52,000-mark as well. Total coronavirus cases in the worst-hit state of Maharashtra has crossed the 6.15 lakh-mark and registered 6,15,477 confirmed cases as of Wednesday. The state crossed Andhra Pradesh to take up second place in the list due to a recent massive surge in the number of cases. After Andhra Pradesh comes Karnataka, where the COVID-19 figure stands at 2,40,948 cases with 1,56,949 patients recovered, and 4,201 fatalities. Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has informed that the total samples tested up to 18th August is 3,17,42,782, which includes the 8,01,518 samples that were tested yesterday.

Source: dna August 19, 2020 04:52 UTC