NEW DELHI, April 22, 2020 (BSS/PTI) – The death toll due
to COVID-19 rose to 640 and the number of cases to 19,984 in
India on Wednesday, according to the Union health ministry.
The number of active COVID-19 cases is 15,474, while
3,869 people have been cured and discharged, and one patient
has migrated, the ministry said.
The total number of cases includes 77 foreign nationals.
A total of 37 deaths were reported since Tuesday evening
— 19 from Maharashtra, 13 from Gujarat, three from West
Bengal and one each from Tamil Nadu and Jhakhand.
Of the 640 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 251
fatalities, followed by Gujarat at 90, Madhya Pradesh at 76,
Delhi at 47, Rajasthan at 25, Telengana at 23 and Andhra
Pradesh at 22.
The death toll has reached 20 in Uttar Pradesh while
Tamil Nadu has reported 18 deaths and Karantaka has
registered 17 fatalities due to COVID-19.
Punjab has registered 16 deaths while West Bengal has
reported 15 fatalities so far.
The disease has claimed five lives in Jammu and Kashmir,
while Kerala, Jhakhand and Haryana have recorded three
COVID-19 deaths each.
Bihar has reported two deaths, while Meghalaya, Himachal
Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported one fatality each,
according to the ministry data.
However, a PTI tally of the figures reported by various
states as on Tuesday evening showed at least 646 deaths in
the country.
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 health ministry’s data updated in the
morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the
country are from Maharashtra at 5,218, followed by Gujarat
at 2,178, Delhi at 2,156, Rajasthan at 1,659, Tamil Nadu at
1,596 and Madhya Pradesh at 1,552.
The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 1,294 in
Uttar Pradesh, 928 in Telangana and 757 in Andhra Pradesh.
The number of cases has risen to 427 in Kerala, 423 in
West Bengal, 418 in Karnataka, 380 in Jammu and Kashmir, 254
in Haryana and 245 in Punjab.
Bihar has reported 126 coronavirus cases, while Odisha
has 79 such cases.
Forty-six people have been infected with the virus in
Uttarakhand followed by Jharkhand with 45 cases.
Himachal Pradesh has 39 cases and Chhattisgarh has 36
while Assam has registered 35 infections so far.
Chandigarh has 27 COVID-19 cases, Ladakh 18, while 16
cases have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.
Meghalaya has reported 12 cases, while Goa and Puducherry
have seven COVID-19 patients each.
Manipur and Tripura have two cases each, while Mizoram
and Arunachal Pradesh have reported a case each.
“Our figures are being reconciled with the ICMR,” the
ministry said on its website.
It also mentioned that one case of Jharkhand has been
reassigned to Bihar after reconciliation.