New Delhi: India witnessed the highest jump in coronavirus cases on Tuesday evening as the tally rose to 10,815 from 9,352 on Monday evening. The total number of cases include 76 foreign nationals.

This is the highest 24-hour jump the country reported so far. The number of deaths rose by 29 in the last 24 hours to 353.

Twenty-nine deaths have been reported since Monday evening, of which 11 deaths were reported from Maharashtra, seven from Madhya Pradesh, four from Delhi, three from Karnataka, two from Andhra Pradesh and one each from Punjab and Telengana.

Of the total 353 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 160 fatalities, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 50, Delhi at 28, Gujarat at 26 and Telengana at 17. Punjab has reported 12 deaths, Tamil Nadu 11 while Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have reported nine deaths each.

West Bengal has reported seven deaths while five people have lost their lives in Uttar Pradesh.

Jammu and Kashmir has reported four fatalities each while Kerala, Haryana and Rajasthan have recorded three deaths each.

Jharkhand has reported two deaths. Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported one fatality each, according to the ministry's data.

The number of active cases rose by 1,224 to 9,272, according to the evening update by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The number of recoveries rose by 210 to 1,189.

Maharashtra continues to be the most affected state with 2,337 cases and 160 deaths.

An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) official said that 2.31 lakh samples have been tested for coronavirus and 21,635 samples were tested in the past 24 hours. "We have received testing kits and have also ordered 33 lakh RT-PCR kits and 37 rapid test kits," added the ICMR official.

The health ministry official emphasised that dedicated Covid-19 hospitals are the need of the hour and cited AIIMS, as the first dedicated Covid-19 hospital in the capital, which has more than 250 beds and 150 ICUs.

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