The number of COVID-19 cases in India saw a record jump of 1,463 to go up to 10,815 cases on Tuesday, according to the Union Health Ministry.
The death toll due to novel coronavirus rose to 353 with 29 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours, the ministry said. However, global tracking site Worldometer pegged the death toll at 358.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 9,272 and as many as 1,189 people have been cured and discharged, and one has migrated, the Health Ministry said.
Twenty-nine deaths have been reported since Monday evening, of which 11 deaths were reported from Maharashtra, seven from Madhya Pradesh, four from Delhi, three from Karnataka, two from Andhra Pradesh and one each from Punjab and Telangana, according to government data.
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Maharashtra currently has the highest number of deaths with 178, according to the state health department.
There has been a lag in the Union Health Ministry figures, compared to the number of deaths announced by different states, which officials attribute to procedural delays in assigning the cases to individual states.
According to the ministry's data updated in the evening, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 2,337 followed by Delhi at 1,510 and Tamil Nadu at 1,173.
COVID-19 cases have gone up to 879 in Rajasthan followed by 730 in Madhya Pradesh, 657 in Uttar Pradesh and 624 in Telangana.
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(With PTI inputs)
