These seven states account for more than 82 percent of India’s total cases.

1. Maharashtra - 41642 cases
2. Tamil Nadu - 13967 cases
3. Gujarat - 12905
4. Delhi - 11659 cases
5. Rajasthan - 6227 cases
6. Madhya Pradesh - 5981 cases
7. Uttar Pradesh - 5515 cases

The Covid-19 virus has infected 1,18,447 people in India so far, with 6,066 of those reported in the last 24 hours.

• Active cases: 66330
• Cured/discharged/migrated: 48534
• Deaths: 3583

3234 people have recovered and 148 have died in the last 24 hours.

Covid-19 cases continue to mount in India as the highly contagious pathogen infected more than 1.18 lakh people, with authorities reporting more than 6,000 fresh cases in a day for the first time.

India added 6,066 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 1,18,447 in Asia’s third-largest economy, according to the health ministry’s update as of 8 a.m. on May 22. That included 3,583 deaths and 48,534 patients who have recovered.

Active cases have gone beyond the 66,000-mark and the overall cases curve is only steepening.

Efforts to contain the pandemic become complicated in the eastern states of Odisha and West Bengal after the authorities had to evacuate 6.5 lakh people as cyclone ‘Amphan’ struck the coastal areas.

Global Update

Brazil had another record day of deaths, with 1,188 fatalities, as President Jair Bolsonaro reached a rare moment of consensus with state governors to back a financial aid package to help cope with the pandemic. A third of U.S. adults, about 94 million people, have delayed or avoided getting medical care during the outbreak, the Census Bureau estimates.

A report from a London college estimates 4.1 percent of the U.S. population is infected and that the epidemic isn’t under control in much of the country.

Total cases globally have topped 5 million with more than 3,31,000 dead.

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