With 61,408 new COVID-19 cases, India's total tally crosses 31-lakh mark

India's COVID-19 caseload mounted to 31,06,348, while the death toll climbed to 57,542 with 836 fatalities being reported in a span of 24-hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.

New Delhi: India coronavirus tally on Monday crossed 31-lakh mark with a single-day spike of 61,408 infections, just a day after it crossed 30 lakh. The number of  recoveries surged to 23,38,035 pushing the recovery rate to over 75 percent, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The total number of COVID-19 caseload mounted to 31,06,348, while the death toll climbed to 57,542 with 836 fatalities being reported in a span of 24-hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.

State-wise COVID-19 data:

S. No.	Name of State / UT	Active Cases*		Cured/Discharged/Migrated*		Deaths**
		Total	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday	Cumulative	Change since yesterday
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	864	59	1963	110	33	1
2	Andhra Pradesh	89742	353	260087	7449	3282	93
3	Arunachal Pradesh	961	29	2297	69	5
4	Assam	19598	1995	70900	3259	242	8
5	Bihar	23111	1057	98325	3467	511	8
6	Chandigarh	1389	117	1492	21	37	4
7	Chhattisgarh	7790	295	12931	537	197	8
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	406	10	1753	51	2
9	Delhi	11778	184	145388	1250	4300	16
10	Goa	3383	248	10472	453	144	4
11	Gujarat	14517	118	69212	969	2895	14
12	Haryana	8961	281	44822	809	603	6
13	Himachal Pradesh	1511	14	3461	120	29
14	Jammu and Kashmir	7198	223	24832	434	617	9
15	Jharkhand	9736	20	19629	1122	312	4
16	Karnataka	83567	874	189564	4996	4683	68
17	Kerala	20394	793	37645	1110	223	5
18	Ladakh	765	45	1491	22	23	2
19	Madhya Pradesh	11510	249	40390	991	1229	23
20	Maharashtra	171859	2026	488271	8157	22253	258
21	Manipur	1608	47	3616	161	22
22	Meghalaya	1133	98	776	7	8	1
23	Mizoram	459	35	459	36	0
24	Nagaland	1383	77	2294	128	9
25	Odisha	23715	854	54406	2129	409	10
26	Puducherry	3706	52	6657	350	159	8
27	Punjab	14165	1140	26528	2226	1086	50
28	Rajasthan	14330	154	55324	1180	955	11
29	Sikkim	529	22	871		3
30	Tamil Nadu	53541	169	319327	6047	6517	97
31	Telengana	22919	11	82411	1825	761	6
32	Tripura	2488	40	6341	159	73	1
33	Uttarakhand	4444	94	10480	459	200	5
34	Uttar Pradesh	49242	951	135613	4318	2926	59
35	West Bengal	28069	169	108007	3048	2794	57
Total#		710771	3103	2338035	57469	57542	836

The COVID-19 case fatality rate has declined to 1.85 percent while the recovery rate has risen to 75.27 percent.

There are 7,10,771 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 22.88 percent of the total caseload, the data stated.

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7.

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 3,59,02,137 samples have been tested up to August 23 with 6,09,917 samples being tested on Sunday.