According to the Union health ministry’s dashboard, India on Tuesday logged 75,809 cases and 1,133 deaths due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) disease, which pushed the overall tally and death toll to 4,280,422 and 72,775 respectively. The active cases have climbed to 883,697 whereas over 3.3 million have recovered from Covid-19 so far.
India has overtaken Brazil to become the nation with the second-highest number of Covid-19 cases. Brazil, which now stands at third position, has over 4.1 million cases whereas United States which continues to be worst hit from the pandemic has over 6.4 million cases.
Meanwhile, the Union health ministry on Monday said that five states are contributing 60 % of the total Covid-19 cases with Maharashtra at the top accounting for 21.6 %, followed by Andhra Pradesh with 11.8%, Tamil Nadu 11%, Karnataka 9.5% and Uttar Pradesh 6.3%