India’s Covid-19 count crosses 16,000-mark, death toll at 519

The death toll due to Covid-19 rose to over 519 and the number of cases crossed 16,000 in the country on Sunday, according to the Union health ministry.

Maharashtra continues to record the highest number of cases (3651). The mortality rate in Maharashtra is also considerably high with 211 deaths so far. 331 patients have recovered from the pandemic in the state.

At least 2,230 people have recovered from the infection, showing that the recovery rate has gone up to over 14.2%, an improvement over 13.85% on Saturday and 13% on Friday.

However, 54 districts in 23 States/Union Territories didn’t report any cases in last 14 days. After Maharashtra and Delhi, the other most-affected states according to the deaths recorded are Gujarat (58), Telangana (18), Madhya Pradesh (70), Punjab (16), Karnataka (14), West Bengal (12), Jammu and Kashmir (5), Uttar Pradesh (17).

In Maharashtra, CM Uddhav Thackeray announced that ‘some’ financial activities will be started from Monday onwards in the state to avoid a situation of financial crisis post-Covid-19 but there shall be no movement of labour outside the state/UT from where they are currently located.

Also, government has revised its order in which e-commerce companies such as Amazon, Flipkart and others and were allowed to operate.