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Coronavirus LIVE: Kerala allows shops to open based on region-wise TPR
Coronavirus live updates: India records 62,597 cases, 2,726 deaths in the last 24 hours. Tamil Nadu reported 12,772 new infections, followed by Maharashtra (8,129). Stay tuned for corona-related news
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Last Updated at June 15, 2021 19:03 IST
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A city street wears a deserted look during Covid-induced lockdown in Kochi (Photo: PTI)
Corona updates: India reported the lowest daily spike in infections since March 31 with 60,471 new cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the country's total coronavirus caseload has has reached 29,570,881. The country reported 2,726 deaths yesterday, taking the death toll to 377,031. The number of active cases of Covid-19 in India, which had swelled to over 3.72 million at the height of the second wave, has fallen below 1 million after 66 days. The test positivity rate has fallen to 3.45 per cent.
Tamil Nadu reported 12,772 new infections, followed by Maharashtra (8,129), Kerala (7,719), Karnataka (6,835), Andhra Pradesh (4,549), Delhi (131) and West Bengal (3,519).
The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (5,917,121), Karnataka (2,771,969), Kerala (2,735,958), Tamil Nadu (2,366,493), Andhra Pradesh (1,814,393).
World coronavirus update: Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 177 million confirmed cases and 3,827,272 deaths across nearly 200 countries recorded since China reported its first cases in December 2019. The US remains the worst-hit country with 34,334,181, followed by India, Brazil, France and Turkey.
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