COVID-19 in India live updates: 9,851 new cases take India's count to 2.26 lakh, recovery rate at 48.27%

The number of coronavirus cases in India has marked significant and consecutive highest jumps over a major part of the last two weeks.

On Thursday, the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 2.25 lakh-mark, while the death toll breached the 6,300-mark as well. With this, India has now become the world's seventh worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVID-19 tracker.

Maharashtra continues to be the epicenter of the coronavirus spread where the number of cases has witnessed an even large spike recently. According to the Health Ministry, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases with nearly 78,000 positive cases of infection while the death toll has crossed 2,700. As many as 2,933 COVID-19 cases were reported from the state on Thursday.

Delhi is the worst-affected Union Territory with over 25,000 cases and 650 deaths while Gujarat has reported over 18,000 cases with more than 1,100 deaths.

Earlier last week, the Centre announced plans to unlock the country and issued guidelines for the opening of various businesses with social distancing norms. India has been under lockdown since March 25, which was to end on April 14, but was later extended till May 3 then further till May 17 and May 31.

The current phase of re-opening, called 'Unlock 1', takes an economic focus. The government intends on being smart about implementing the lockdown in select places so that the economic activity of the country, as a whole, does not take any more hits. The rising number of coronavirus disease cases for the past few weeks in the country has led the Centre to take this call in order to prevent COVID-19 from spreading further.

According to the new guidelines, all activities outside of containment zones have been allowed to resume in a phased manner from June 1. The guidelines will come into effect from June 1 and will be effective till June 30.

The Union Health Ministry on Thursday released the standard operating procedure (SOPs) for malls, restaurants and hotels as they plan to open these establishments under relaxed guidelines from June 8.

The SOPs include measures like allowing only asymptomatic staff and guests inside the premises and proper crowd management.

Here are all the latest coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related updates in India on June 05, 2020
09:15 IST Friday, 5 June 2020

In the last 24 hours, 9851 new cases and 273 deaths were reported throughout the country, both highest in a single day in India till now. Recovery rate 48.27%.

09:15 IST Friday, 5 June 2020

Coronavirus cases in India rise to 2,26,770 which includes 1,10,960 active cases, 1,09,461 recovered cases, 1 migrant patient and 6,348 deaths.

07:06 IST Friday, 5 June 2020

Maharashtra COVID-19 update:

Total cases: 77,793 (2,933 new cases)

Death toll: 2,710 (123 new fatalities)

07:06 IST Friday, 5 June 2020

Delhi update:

Total cases: 25,004 (1359 new cases)

Death toll: 650 (reports of 44 deaths were received in the last 24 hours but only 24 deaths took place in the period)

Active cases: 14,456