India COVID-19 confirmed cases currently stand at 6,412 while the death toll is nearing 200-mark and the number of recovered patients is at 504, according to the Health Ministry's latest data. In the last 12 hours, the nation witnessed at least 30 fatalities while positive cases crossed 6,000 as India entered its 17th of complete lockdown. Several hotspots in the country across many districts have been sealed where positive cases of coronavirus have surfaced in order to contain the virus from further spreading.

Twenty-five deaths were reported from Maharashtra, three from Delhi and one each from Gujarat and Jharkhand. Maharashtra has reported the most coronavirus deaths at 97, followed by Gujarat at 17, Madhya Pradesh 16and Delhi 12. Punjab and Tamil Nadu have reported eight fatalities each whileTelengana has reported seven deaths. West Bengal and Karnataka have registeredfive deaths each. Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh havereported four deaths each while Haryana and Rajasthan have recorded threedeaths each.

Two deaths have been reported from Kerala. Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand reported one fatality each, according to thehealth ministry data. The 6,412 figure includes 71 foreign nationals. The deathtoll on Thursday evening was 169. However, a PTI tally of figures reported byvarious states as on Thursday late evening showed at least 6,640 cases and 227deaths. There has been a lag in the Union Health Ministry figures, compared tothe number of cases announced by different states, which officials attribute toprocedural delays in assigning the cases to individual states.

According to the ministry's data updated in the morning, thehighest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 1,364,followed by Tamil Nadu at 834 and Delhi with 720 cases. The cases have gone upto 463 in Rajasthan, while they have risen to 442 in Telengana Uttar Pradeshhas 410 cases so far, followed by Kerala at 357 cases. Andhra Pradesh hasreported 348 coronavirus cases Novel coronavirus cases have risen to 259 inMadhya Pradesh, 241 in Gujarat,  181 inKarnataka and 169 in Haryana.