Coronavirus outbreak: 71 dead in a day, India toll crosses 1,000-mark

Maharashtra tally rises to 9,915 with 597 new cases

Death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 1,008 and the number of cases climbed to 31,787 in the country on Wednesday, registering a record jump of 71 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. There has been a spike of 1,813 cases since Tuesday evening.
 

The number of active Covid-19 cases stand at 22,982, while 7,796 people have recovered, and one patient has migrated, the ministry said.
 

“Thus, around 24.52 per cent of the patients have recovered so far,” a Health Ministry official said.
 

The total number of cases include 111 foreign nationals.