Thedeath toll in India due to the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 308 on Mondayafter 35 new death cases reported, while the number of positive cases climbedto 9,152, informed the Union Health Ministry.
Accordingto the health ministry, the number of active coronavirus cases stood at 7,987,as many as 856 people have been cured and discharged, while one had migrated. Thetotal numbers of cases include 72 foreign nationals.
Accordingto reports, 35 deaths have been reported since Sunday evening, of which 22 werereported from Maharashtra, five from Delhi, three from Gujarat, two from WestBengal and one each from Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh.
Maharashtratops the tally with 149 fatalities, of the total 308 deaths, followed by MadhyaPradesh at 36, Gujarat at 25 and Delhi at 24. Punjab and Tamil Nadu haveregistered 11 deaths each, while Telengana reported nine fatalities.
Sevenpeople have lost their lives in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh each, while sixdeaths were reported in Karnataka. Uttar Pradesh has reported five fatalities,Jammu and Kashmir has four, while Haryana and Rajasthan have recorded threedeaths each.
Two deaths have been reported from Kerala and Jharkhand.Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam reported a fatality each, accordingto the ministry data.
Accordingto the ministry's data updated in the morning, the highest numbers of confirmedcases in the country are from Maharashtra at 1,985, followed by Delhi at 1,154and Tamil Nadu at 1,043.
TheCOVID-19 cases have gone up to 804 in Rajasthan, followed by 564 in MadhyaPradesh, 516 from Gujarat and 504 in Telangana. Uttar Pradesh has 483 cases,followed by Andhra Pradesh at 427 and Kerala at 376 and Jammu and Kashmir at245.
The number of novel coronavirus cases has risen to 232 inKarnataka and 185 in Haryana. West Bengal has reported 152 cases, while Punjabhas reported 151 COVID-19 positive cases so far.
Bihar has reported 64 cases, while Odisha has 54 coronaviruscases. Thirty-five people were infected with the virus in Uttarakhand, whileAssam has 30 patients, followed by Himachal Pradesh with 32 cases.
Chhattisgarh has 31 cases, Chandigarh has 21, Jharkhand has19 and Ladakh 15, while 11 cases have been reported from the Andaman andNicobar Islands.
Goa and Puducherry have reported seven COVID-19 infectionseach, Manipur and Tripura have two cases each, while Mizoram and ArunachalPradesh have reported a case each.
"State-wise distribution is subject to furtherverification and reconciliation," the ministry said on its website.
