New COVID-19 cases again breached the 3.5 lakh benchmark on Wednesday after remaining low for two consecutive days. Deaths due to the virus remained over 4,000 for the second day in a row. Overall, the day saw 3,62,720 new cases taking the caseload tally to 23,703,665 and recorded 4,120 deaths taking the death tally to 2,58,317.
Further, 3,52,181 people were discharged from the hospital in the last 24 hours. As per the WHO report, since May 10 fresh COVID-19 cases reported from India have remained over 50% of the world's total cases.
Wednesday's tally for both Maharashtra and Kerala crossed 40,000 while cases reported from Karnataka were slightly below that mark. Tamil Nadu also reported a little over 30,000 cases. These four states are reporting more daily cases than any other country.
Maharashtra reported 46,781 new COVID-19 cases and 920 deaths, followed by Karnataka (39,998), Kerala (43,529), Uttar Pradesh (18,125), Tamil Nadu (30,355), Andhra Pradesh (21,452), West Bengal (20,377), Delhi (13,287) in the past 24 hours.
The six most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (5,226,710), Karnataka (2,053,191), Kerala (1,980,000), Uttar Pradesh (1,545,212), Tamil Nadu (14,68,864), Delhi (1,323,567), and Andhra Pradesh (1,344,386).
Fresh cases reported from Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal were slightly over 20,000 while UP and Rajasthan reported between 15,000 and 18,000 cases. Overall, 13 states reported over 10,000 cases.