COVID-19 LIVE: Total cases cross 7000 mark, death toll at 239

19:05 April 11

Tamil Nadu: Number of COVID-19 positive cases who attended 'single source' event at Delhi and their contacts today is 47. 

Total number of positive cases in those who attended 'single source' event at Delhi and their contacts till today is 881. 

19:05 April 11

Odisha: There are total 50 COVID-19 positive cases, 1 death in the state. As of today, there are 37 active cases in the state. 

19:04 April 11

Mumbai: 189 more COVID-19 cases & 11 deaths related to the virus reported in Mumbai today, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the city to 1,182 & deaths at 75.

 Of the 11 deaths reported today, 10 had comorbidities & age-related factors. 

19:03 April 11

Kerala:10 new COVID-19 cases reported in Kerala today; 7 from Kannur, 1 from Kozhikode, 2 from Kasaragod. 

7 have foreign travel history while 3 have contact history with positive COVID-19 patients. 

Total number of cases stands at 373 now, of which 228 are active cases. 

19:02 April 11

Andhra Pradesh: 24 new COVID-19 positive cases reported in Andhra Pradesh since 9PM last night till 5PM today; taking the total number of cases to 405, of which 11 are discharged, 6 are deceased, 388 are undergoing treatment. 

19:02 April 11

2 new positive cases reported today,total cases are now 32 in Himachal Pradesh. 

954 samples have been tested so far and 2969 people have completed 28 days of quarantine. 

19:01 April 11

Total number of positive COVID-19 cases in Punjab stands at 158. 

12 deaths have been reported in the state till now. 

18:59 April 11

Uttarakhand:No new positive case in the state for the third day in a row.

 Total number of cases in the state remains at 35.

16:43 April 11

Total no. of COVID-19 cases in the country is 7,447 now, 642 people have recovered.

 In the last 24 hours - there have been 1,035 new cases and 40 deaths. Total 239 deaths have been reported so far. 

16:19 April 11

Health Ministry: 

• India’s response to COVID-19 has been proactive. We have followed a graded approach. There are 586 COVID19 dedicated hospitals and more than 1 lakh isolation beds in the country.
• Lockdown and containment measures are important to fight COVID19. If we had not taken any measures then we might have had 2 lakh cases at this time

15:40 April 11

Rajasthan:117 COVID-19 cases reported in Rajasthan today, taking the total number of coronavirus positive cases in the state to 678. 

15:20 April 11

Andhra Pradesh: 21 new COVID-19 cases reported today.

The total number of COVID-19 cases rises to 402. 

14:34 April 11

Mumbai:Death toll due to COVID-19 in Dharavi rises to 4after an 80-year-old man died at Kasturba Hospital. 

13:17 April 11

COVID-19 cases rise to 214 in Karnataka, with seven more people testing positive between 5 PM yesterday & 12 PM today. 

Out of the total cases, six people have died while 37 others were cured/discharged. 

13:16 April 11

Haryana: Till date 163 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the state, including 6 from Sri Lanka, 1 each from Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia & South Africa and 64 from other states. 

2 deaths reported in the state so far. 

13:15 April 11

Punjab: Number of COVID-19 cases reaches 50 in Mohali, Punjab, with maximum 34 cases being reported in Jawaharpur village alone. 

Two people have died due to the disease while five others were cured. 

11:38 April 11

Maharashtra: 92 more COVID-19 positive cases reported today, taking the total number of positive coronavirus cases in the state to 1,666. 

11:25 April 11

Death toll due to COVID-19 rises to 239; cases climb to 7,447

The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 239 and the number of cases to 7,447 in the country on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry.

While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 6,565, as many as 642 people were cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said.

As many as 33 new deaths have been reported since Friday evening, the ministry said.

Seventeen deaths were reported from Madhya Pradesh, 13 from Maharashtra, two from Gujarat and one from Assam, it said.

Maharashtra has reported the most coronavirus deaths at 110, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 33, Gujarat at 19 and Delhi at 13.  

Punjab registered 11 deaths while Tamil Nadu has reported eight fatalities and Telengana seven.

Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have reported six deaths each while West Bengal has registered five deaths each.

Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh have reported four deaths each while Haryana and Rajasthan have recorded three deaths each.

Two deaths have been reported from Kerala. Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam reported one fatality each, according to the health ministry data.

The 7,447 figure includes 71 foreign nationals. The death toll on Friday evening was 206.

There has been a lag in the Union Health Ministry figures, compared to the number of cases 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 morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 1574, followed by Tamil Nadu at 911 and Delhi at 903.

11:25 April 11

Gujarat:54 new COVID-19 cases in Gujarat. Total of 432 positive cases in the state. 

In last 24 hrs 1,593 tests conducted, out of which 1187 cases are negative & 124 are positive, 282 are pending.

Ahmedabad & Vadodara are most infected with 228 & 77 cases respectively. 

10:35 April 11

Madhya Pradesh: 14 more positive cases found in Indore, total positive cases here now stand at 249.

Death toll so far in Indore is 30. 12 people were discharged yesterday after they recovered,a total of 29 people so far. 

10:06 April 11

Kerala:3rd COVID-19 death reported in Kerala - a 71-years-old native of Puducherry's Mahe diedat Pariyaram Medical College in Kannur. 

He was in very critical condition and his kidneys were not functioning. He was on ventilator for the last few days. 

09:25 April 11

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare:40 deaths and 1035 new cases in last 24 hours, the sharpest ever increase in cases.

 India's total number of Coronavirus positive cases rises to 7447 (including 6565 active cases, 643 cured/discharged/migrated and 239 deaths). 

09:24 April 11

Kerala:Total positive cases in Kerala stands at 364, of which 238 are active cases. 

09:23 April 11

Jharkhand:3 new cases of COVID-19 in Jharkhand - 1 from Ranchi's Hindpiri, the other 2 from Koderma and Hazaribagh. 

Total number of positive cases in the state goes up to 17. 

09:19 April 11

2 fresh COVID-19 cases in Odisha, 10 patients recover

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has reported two fresh COVID-19 positive cases taking the total number to 50, while 10 coronavirus patients have recovered in the state, an
official of the Health and Family Welfare department said on Saturday.

Two more persons tested positive and 10 recovered on Friday, the official said, adding that that the state presently has 37 active COVID-19 cases.

One person has so far succumbed to COVID-19 and a total of have recovered so far.

The cumulative tests in the state stand at 3,547 out of which 50 have tested positive, the department said.

Ten COVID-19 patients have recovered and tested negative for the virus, the department said in a tweet on Friday. Five of them are from Bhubaneswar, two from Bhadrak and one each of Cuttack, Jajpur and Puri, the Health department said in its official twitter post.

Chief Secretary A K Tripathy congratulated the doctors and paramedical staff on the complete recovery of the 10 patients in one day.

"Excellent news! Congratulations to Health Department Team and all the doctors and para-medics!!," Tripathy said.