United News of India
New Delhi, Apr 18: The Novel COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 14792 by Saturday evening, according to the latest Health ministry data.
With eight more casualties reported since morning, the death toll due to COVID-19 reached 488 here, the update said.
The number of active COVID cases in the country at present stand at 12289, while the number of cured and discharged cases were now at 2014, it added.
Cases in the worst COVID hit-state in the country- Maharashtra, have again spiked with the number now resting at 3,323 with 201 casualties, followed by the national capital, where the cases have reached 1,707 and 42 casualties.
With a rapid spike in the number of cases in the past two days, Madhya Pradesh now houses 1,355 positive cases with 69 deaths.
After MP, cases also rose in Gujarat today, which now houses 1272 cases and with seven more reported deaths, the toll has gone up to 48.
Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan have also witnessed a spike in positive Coronavirus cases, with figures now standing at 1,323 and 1,229, respectively.
In the past two days, the number of positive cases have rapidly increased in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, other than Maharashtra , Delhi, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
As per the Health ministry’s official statement on Saturday, a total of 4,291 people have been found to be linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi.
Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal had earlier underlined that 29.8 per cent of the total COVID-19 cases in the country were linked to ‘one particular place’.
He said 84 per cent cases in Tamil Nadu, 63 per cent in Delhi, 79 per cases in Telangana, 59 per cent in
Uttar Pradesh and 61 per cent cases in Andhra Pradesh are related to the event.
