India records highest single-day spike with 24,000 plus COVID-19 cases in last 24 hour

India recorded its highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases as well as fatalities, with 24,850 fresh infections and 613 deaths in the last 24 hours. This was the fourth straight day of record rise in infections as more than 23,500 cases were reported on July 4 and July 3 and over 22,000 the day before on July 2.

Of the 613 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 295 are from Maharashtra, 81 from Delhi, 65 from Tamil Nadu, 42 from Karnataka, 24 from Uttar Pradesh, 21 from Gujarat, 19 from West Bengal, 12 from Andhra Pradesh, nine from Bihar, eight from Jammu and Kashmir, seven from Rajasthan, five each in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, and Telangana, two each from Goa and Jharkhand and one from Himachal Pradesh.

Here's the state-wise data of coronavirus all across India:

S. No.	Name of State / UT	Active Cases*	Cured/Discharged/Migrated*	Deaths**	Total Confirmed cases*
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	53	66	0	119
2	Andhra Pradesh	9473	8008	218	17699
3	Arunachal Pradesh	182	76	1	259
4	Assam	3997	6657	14	10668
5	Bihar	2925	8686	89	11700
6	Chandigarh	59	395	6	460
7	Chhattisgarh	598	2549	14	3161
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	175	96	0	271
9	Delhi	25940	68256	3004	97200
10	Goa	853	825	6	1684
11	Gujarat	7981	25406	1925	35312
12	Haryana	4031	12257	260	16548
13	Himachal Pradesh	331	704	11	1046
14	Jammu and Kashmir	2976	5143	127	8246
15	Jharkhand	687	2035	17	2739
16	Karnataka	11970	9244	335	21549
17	Kerala	2131	3048	25	5204
18	Ladakh	178	826	1	1005
19	Madhya Pradesh	2772	11234	598	14604
20	Maharashtra	83311	108082	8671	200064
21	Manipur	658	667	0	1325
22	Meghalaya	18	43	1	62
23	Mizoram	34	130	0	164
24	Nagaland	335	228	0	563
25	Odisha	2633	5934	34	8601
26	Puducherry	459	331	12	802
27	Punjab	1641	4306	162	6109
28	Rajasthan	3445	15640	447	19532
29	Sikkim	45	58	0	103
30	Tamil Nadu	44959	60592	1450	107001
31	Telangana	10487	11537	288	22312
32	Tripura	343	1202	1	1546
33	Uttarakhand	549	2502	42	3093
34	Uttar Pradesh	7627	18154	773	26554
35	West Bengal	6329	14166	736	21231
	Cases being reassigned to states	4629			4629
	Total#	244814	409083	19268	673165

India's coronavirus tally stands at 6,73,165 which includes 2,44,814 active cases, 4,09,083 cured/migrated cases. The positivity rate in India stands at 9.98 percent.

As per the Indian Council of Medical Research data, the total number of samples tested up to July 4 is 97,89,066 of which 2,48,934 samples were tested yesterday. The recovery rate saw a steady rise at 60.77 percent at present.