The coronavirus cases in India continue to spread rapidly as the country has marked significant and consecutive highest jumps in the COVID-19 tally over a major part of the past two weeks. With nearly 10,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Monday hit a new high, crossing the 2.56 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 7,100-mark as well.

Maharashtra continues to be the epicenter of the coronavirus spread where the number of cases has witnessed an even large spike recently. According to the Health Ministry, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases with nearly 86,000 positive cases of infection and more than 3,000 deaths. As many as 3,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported from the state in the past 24 hours.

According to the daily testing (molecular-based) update provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 47,74,434 samples have been tested until now, of which 1,08,048 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.

Shopping malls, religious places, hotels, and restaurants have now been reopened in most states from Monday after more than two months of sustained lockdown. The current phase of re-opening, called 'Unlock 1', takes an economic focus. The government intends on being smart about implementing the lockdown in select places so that the economic activity of the country, as a whole, does not take any more hits.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had also released the standard operating procedure (SOPs) for malls, restaurants, and hotels as they opened these establishments under relaxed guidelines. But a lot of details were also left to the discretion of the states to finetune.

Here are all the latest coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related updates in India on June 09, 2020 (Tuesday):

07:30 IST Monday, 9 June 2020

Delhi: People arrive at Ghazipur fruit and vegetable market to make purchases, amid the #COVID19 pandemic.

Delhi: People arrive at Ghazipur fruit and vegetable market to make purchases, amid #COVID19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/0dBD9MsjBR

— ANI (@ANI) June 9, 2020

06:48 IST Monday, 9 June 2020

Chhattisgarh: 104 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the state on Monday, taking the total number of cases to 1,197 in the state. According to the official data, the state has 858 active cases so far.

06:45 IST Monday, 9 June 2020

Tripura: With the increase in the number of COVID19 cases in the state, the Tripura government has declared 30 locations as containment zones.

With the increase in number of #COVID19 cases in the state, Tripura government has declared 30 locations as containment zones: Ratan Lal Nath, State Minister (8/6) pic.twitter.com/9xr4vAc3co

— ANI (@ANI) June 8, 2020

06:40 IST Monday, 9 June 2020

Jammu-based Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine gets nod for clinical trials of its anti-cancer drug IIIM-290, to be used against pancreatic cancer, after successful completion of preclinical development: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. (PTI input)

06:34 IST Monday, 9 June 2020

Haryana government asks senior IAS officers to visit districts for a minimum of two days to supervise current arrangements and chalk out strategies to be put in place to contain COVID-19 spread.

06:33 IST Monday, 9 June 2020

Jharkhand: State reports the highest single-day spike with 147 COVID-19 cases; tally rises to 1,290. (PTI report)