New Delhi, Sep 10 (UNI) Sixty per cent of the 95,735 new Covid-19 cases reported in the past 24 hours in the country are from just five states with Maharashtra alone contributing more than 23,000 and Andhra Pradesh over 10,000.
The total number of active cases in the country stood at 9,19,018 on Thursday. More than 74 per cent of the total active cases were in five most affected states of which Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh together contribute a whopping 49 per cent of total active cases, an official release here said.
Maharashtra was leading this tally with more than 2,50,000 followed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh more than 97,000 each.
Altogether, 1,172 deaths have been registered in the past 24 hours: 32 per cent of deaths reported on Wednesday were from Maharashtra with 380 deaths followed by Karnataka with 128 deaths, and Tamil Nadu with 78 deaths.
Of the total deaths, 69 per cent were concentrated in five states/UT of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh.
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