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The COVID-19 pandemic has posted a new record in daily increases with 6,977 new cases over the past 24 hours. The number of COVID-19 cases in the country has thus registered a daily increase of over 6,000 for the fourth day in a row. On Friday, India had registered a COVID-19 growth of 6,088 new cases in single day. This was a record at the time. That record was broken on Saturday as 6,654 fresh COVID-19 cases were registered.
The COVID-19 pandemic posted an even bigger record in daily increases on Sunday with 6,767 new cases. India has now recorded a daily growth of over 5,000 COVID-19 cases for five consecutive days. May has thus turned out to be a record breaking month for the coronavirus pandemic in India as the month has now seen 16 days with daily increase of over 3,500 COVID-19 cases. Apart from witnessing a spike of more than 6,000 coronavirus cases for the fourth consecutive day, India also recorded 154 fresh fatalities over the past 24 hours. The country’s COVID-19 tally has climbed to 1,38,845 with 4,021 people losing their lives to the coronavirus pandemic. According to Union Health and Family Welfare department data, India witnessed a surge of 6,977 new cases in the last 24 hours. Of the total 1,38,845 cases, 77,103 are active cases while 57,720 people have been cured, including 3,280 cured in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra continued to be the worst-hit state with 50,231 cases. 3,041 new cases and 58 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours the took the tally of fatalities to 1,635. Of the 50,231 cases a total of 14,600 have been cured. Tamil Nadu stood second with 16,277 cases, and Gujarat third with 14,056 cases. The death toll was 111 in Tamil Nadu and 858 in Gujarat. Delhi reported 13,418 cases and 261 casualties, while 6,412 patients have been cured here. States/UTs with more than 5,000 COVID-19 cases are Rajasthan (7,028), Madhya Pradesh (6,665) and Uttar Pradesh (6,268). Others with more than 1,000 cases are West Bengal (3,667), Andhra Pradesh (2,823), Punjab (2,060), Telangana (1,854), Bihar (2,587), Jammu and Kashmir (1,621), Karnataka (2,089), Odisha (1,336) and Haryana (1,184). States and UTs with significant number of cases are Kerala (847), Jharkhand (370), Chandigarh (238), Assam (378), Tripura (191), Chhattisgarh (252) and Uttarakhand (317). Sikkim and Dadra and Nagar Haveli did not report any fresh incident in the last 24 hours, as per ministry data. Goa has reported 66 cases so far. A spurt has been observed in Pudducherry which now has 41 cases. There are now 52 cases in Ladakh.