India's COVID-19 count rises by nearly 5,000 new cases

Monday, 18 May 2020Newsdesk

In India the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,872 and the number of total positive cases climbed to 90,927 Sunday morning, registering an increase of 120 fatalities and a record jump of 4,987 new cases in 24 hours, since 8 AM Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry.

New Delhi, 18 May 2020

As per news report of PTI, the number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 53,946, while 34,108 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said. Three states have reported over 10,000 cases so far with Maharashtra being the worst hit at 30,706 infections, followed by Gujarat (10,988) and Tamil Nadu 10,585.

Source -PTI