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India cases surge to 4,659,984 with 97,570 new cases

12 September 2020 09:00 (UTC +04:00)

India has recorded its biggest 24-hour spike of 97,654 coronavirus cases, APA reports citing Sputnik.

With this, India's tally has surged to 4,657,379. Death toll currently stands at 77,506. In the past seven days, India has recorded 636,889 COVID cases. After record daily spike of 248,86 cases, Maharashtra's COVID tally crosses the 1-million mark.

Kerala's total number of coronavirus cases has surpassed 100,000 and Uttar Pradesh's tally is nearing 300,000. Delhi reported 4,266 fresh corona cases, taking the tally to over 209,000. Sixty percent of the daily new Covid-19 recoveries in India are from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh, which also account for 57 percent of the new cases.