Over 40,000 fresh cases push India's COVID-19 count to 11.18 lakh
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India has yet again witnessed its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases with 40,425 cases reported in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
With these fresh cases, India's coronavirus cases tally has gone up to 11,18,043, out of which there are 3,90,459 active cases and 7,00,087 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated.
The death toll has gone up to 27,497 with 681 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with 3,10,455 cases reported until Sunday.
While Tamil Nadu has a tally of 1,70,693 cases and 2,481 deaths due to COVID-19, Delhi has reported a total of 1,22,793 cases and 3,228 deaths due to the virus.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 17, of these 2,56,039 samples were tested yesterday.
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