At least 107 confirmed cases, an increase of 24 from the daybefore, of coronavirus have been reported from India, the Ministry of Healthand Family welfare said on its official website on Sunday.
With the number of coronavirus positive cases shooting to 32,Maharashtra has emerged as the worst-hit state in the country. A 59-year-oldwoman tested positive for the virus in Aurangabad today, a state healthofficial said. Five new cases were detected in Pimpri-Chinchwad in Punedistrict, late on Saturday night, the health official added.
"The woman has tested positive for coronavirus infection. She had traveled to Russia and Kazakhstan. She has been quarantined at Dhoot Hospital in Aurangabad," the official said.
In Kerala today, twenty passengers, including UK national tested positive for coronavirus, of Dubai-bound flight from Kochi. The passengers were detained and the flight left with renaming passengers, an airport official said.
Three coronavirus suspected cases that had fled from the isolation ward in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar Civil Hospital on Saturday, returned to the facility early on Sunday. Similarly, three out of four coronavirus suspects who ran away from the Mayo Hospital in Nagpur have also returned, and efforts are on to trace the fourth.
According to the Health Ministry, Delhi confirmed 7 cases of which one person died on Friday and 2 recovered from the disease.
Haryana has 14 cases, and all the patients are foreign nationals. However, according to data available on the ministry website, Kerala, reported 22 cases of which 3 persons have recovered and were discharged earlier. Rajasthan reported 4 cases – 2 are Indians and 2 foreign nationals.
Telangana confirmed once the case. According to the Health Ministry, the person has recovered and has been discharged from the hospital.
Uttar Pradesh confirmed 11 cases so far. One of the patients is a foreign national while the remaining 10 are Indians and three of them have been discharged from the hospital. There is one confirmed case in Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh each. While the union territory of Ladakh reported 3 confirmed cases, Jammu and Kashmir showed 2 COVID-19 cases.
Karnataka confirmed one case. The patient died from COVID-19 alongwith comorbidity condition. The data took into account cases compiled till 8.55am on Sunday.
According to the ministry, there are at least 76 Indian nationalsand 17 foreigners who are confirmed COVID-19 cases. A total of two persons havedied so far with one death in the national capital and one in Karnataka.
Moreover, the data shows that so far 12,29,363 have been screenedat the Airports across India.
