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Covid-19 Factoid: Just 3 states account for 58% of India's total cases

J&K has seen a late surge, with 285 cases being reported in a day. Of the UT's total count of cases, 60% are still active. But, it has managed to keep its fatalities low

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Passengers undergo thermal screening as they board a public bus following ease of restrictions, during the fifth phase of Covid-19 lockdown in Ajmer. Photo: PTI

Jyotindra Dubey New Delhi
The global tally of coronavirus infections is now at 6.7 million. There have been 393,264 deaths worldwide, while 3.25 million patients have now recovered. Thanks to high growth in cases seen lately in Brazil and Russia, which now have 15 per cent of all cases in the world, the share of the US has come down to under 30 per cent.

As of June 5, India had more than 220,000 confirmed cases, of which 110,960 were active. As many as 6,348 people had died, while 109,461 had been cured. Three states – Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi – alone had more