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The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry in its latest update has revealed that a worrying tally of 18,653 COVID-19 cases has been reported in India in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s total coronavirus cases to 5,85,493.
As per the Ministry, there are presently 2,20,114 active cases in the country. The number of patients cured/discharged and migrated stands at 3,47,979.
507 deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in the last 24 hours taking the total deaths due to the virus to 17,400.
According to the ministry, Maharashtra is the worst-affected state by the virus with 1,74,761 cases including 7,855 fatalities.
Tamil Nadu is the second worst-hit state with 90,167 cases including 1,201 deaths. Meanwhile, Delhi has a total of 87,360 cases.
The Indian Council of Medical Research said that a total number of 86,26,585 tested up to June 30 of which 2,17,931 samples were tested on Tuesday.
