Death toll due to COVID-19 rises to 2,649; cases climb to 81,970

The death
toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,649 and the number of cases climbed to 81,970 on
Friday, registering an increase of 100 deaths and 3,967 cases in the last 24
hours since Thursday 8 am, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number
of active cases stood at 51,401 while 27,919 people have recovered.

Of the 100 deaths
reported since Thursday morning, 44 were in Maharashtra, 20 in Gujarat, 9 in
Delhi, 8 in West Bengal, five each in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, four in
Rajasthan, two each in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and one in Andhra Pradesh.

Of the 2,649
fatalities, Maharashtra tops tally with 1,019 deaths, Gujarat comes second with
586 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 237, West Bengal at 215, Rajasthan at
125, Delhi at 115, Uttar Pradesh at 88,Tamil Nadu at 66 and Andhra Pradesh at
48. The death toll reached 35 in Karnataka, 34 Telangana and 32 in Punjab.

Haryana and
Jammu and Kashmir have reported 11 fatalities each due to the disease while
Bihar has registered seven and Kerala has reported four deaths. Jharkhand,
Chandigarh and Odisha have recorded three COVID-19 fatalities each while
Himachal Pradesh and Assam have reported two deaths each. Meghalaya,
Uttarakhand and Puducherry have reported one fatality each, according to the
ministry data.

More than 70
per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities (existence of multiple
disorders), according to the ministry. The data updated this morning showed the
highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at
27,524, followed by Tamil Nadu at 9,674, Gujarat at 9,591, Delhi at 8,470 Rajasthan
at 4,534, Madhya Pradesh at 4,426 and Uttar Pradesh at 3,902.

The number
of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 2,377 in West Bengal, 2,205 in Andhra Pradesh
and 1,935 in Punjab. It has risen to 1,414 in Telangana, 994 in Bihar, 987 in
Karnataka, 983 in Jammu and Kashmir and 818 in Haryana. Odisha has reported 611
coronavirus infection cases so far while Kerala has 560 cases.

A total of
197 people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 191 in
Chandigarh. Tripura has reported 156 cases, Assam has 87 cases, Uttarakhand has
78, Himachal Pradesh has 74 cases, Chhattisgarh has 60 and Ladakh has
registered 43 cases so far. Thirty-three COVID-19 cases have been reported from
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Goa reported
14 COVID-19 cases while Meghalaya and Puducherry registered 13 cases each.
Manipur has three cases. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli
reported a case each till how.