The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India saw their highest single-day surge on Monday as the tally went past 1,250 with 227 new cases being reported. On Sunday evening, the number of positive cases stood at 1,024.

According to the numbers released by the Health Ministry on Monday at 9:30 pm, the tally stands at 1,251. 49 of these cases are foreigners while 46 of them are being assigned to states to initiate contact tracing. Kerala has the highest number of cases at 202, followed by Maharashtra at 198. There are currently 1,117 cases in the country.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry on Monday said it took 12 days for cases of infection to rise from 100 to 1,000 in the country and the rate of increase has been slower than some of the developed nations.

The ministry had mentioned the current phase of the pandemic as "local transmission and limited community transmission".

Raman R Gangakhedkar, head of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research, said 38,442 tests have been conducted till now, out of which 3,501 were done on Sunday.

He said 47 private laboratories have been given approval for conducting COVID-19 tests and in the last three days, 1,334 tests have been done in private labs, he said.

"It is still below 30 per cent of or testing capacity," he said.

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