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The death toll due to coronavirus rose to 414 and the number of cases to 12,380 in the country on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry.

While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 10,477, as many as 1,488 people have been cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said.The total number of cases include 76 foreign nationals.

Twenty-two deaths were reported since Wednesday evening, th eministry said in its updated data.Nine fatalities were reported fromMaharashtra, five from Andhra Pradesh, three from Gujarat, two each from Delhiand Tamil Nadu and one from Karnataka, it added.Of the total 414 deaths,Maharashtra tops the tally with 187 fatalities, followed by Madhya Pradesh at53, Gujarat at 33, Delhi at 32 and Telengana at 18.

Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have reported 14 fatalitieseach.Punjab has reported 13 deaths while Karnataka have reported 12 deaths andUttar Pradesh has 11 deaths.West Bengal has registered seven deaths.Fourpersons have lost their lives in Jammu and Kashmir while Kerala, Haryana andRajasthan have recorded three deaths each.Jharkhand has reported two deaths.Meghalaya,Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam reported one fatality each, accordingto the health ministry data.However, a PTI tally of figures reported by variousstates as on Wednesday evening showed at least 12,220 COVID-19 cases and 417deaths.There has been a lag in the Union Health Ministry figures, compared tothe number of deaths announced by different states, which officials attributeto procedural delays in assigning the cases to individual states.According tothe ministry's data updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmedcases in the country is from Maharashtra at 2,916, followed by Delhi at 1,578and Tamil Nadu at 1,242.COVID-19 cases have gone up to 1,023 in Rajasthan,followed by 987 in Madhya Pradesh, 766 in Gujarat and 735 in Uttar Pradesh.Telenganahas 647 cases, Andhra Pradesh 525 and Kerala 388.The number of novelcoronavirus cases has risen to 300 in Jammu and Kashmir, 279 in Karnataka, 231in West Bengal and 205 in Haryana. Punjab has reported 186 infections so far.Biharhas reported 70 cases, while Odisha has 60 coronavirus cases. Thirty-sevenpeople were infected with the virus in Uttarakhand, while Himachal Pradesh has35 cases. Assam and Chhattisgarh have registered 33 cases each.Jharkhand has 28cases, Chandigarh 21 cases and Ladakh 17.

Eleven cases have been reported from the Andaman and NicobarIslands.Meghalaya, Goa and Puducherry have reported seven COVID-19 infectionseach. Manipur and Tripura have two cases each, while Mizoram and ArunachalPradesh have reported a case each."State-wise distribution is subject tofurther verification and reconciliation," the ministry said on itswebsite. The website also said a COVID-19 patient from Nagaland has beenshifted to Assam.


Publish Time: 16 April 2020
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