New Delhi: As covid cases surge in India, the country registered 12,781 new infections in the last 24 hours. The total tally of active caseload has climbed to over 76,700, the union health ministry said on Monday.
Total covid-19 cases have reached 4,33,09,473 so far. The death toll has climbed to 5,24,873 with 18 new fatalities reported in a day, the data stated. “About 12,781 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours with active caseload shooting at 76,700," said the ministry.
While Delhi has witnessed an active caseload of 5,542, Maharashtra has 23746 cases, Haryana has recorded 2985 cases while Kerala has reported more than 22436 covid cases at present.
Tamil Nadu has 3522 active cases, Karnataka has reported 5035 active cases so far. The increasing covid numbers are pushing up positivity rate to 4.32%.