With positive cases of COVID-19 increasing day by day in India, the positive toll for Coronavirus has reached to 172. Thursday morning brought two new positive cases from Maharashtra.
Total cases in India include 32 foreign nationals -- 17 from Italy, seven from Indonesia, three from the Philippines, two from the UK, one each belonging to Canada, Indonesia and Singapore. India's tally of 170 also includes three deaths reported from Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Approx 16 people have been discharged till now including three patients from Kerala. Thursday also brought the first positive case of Chandigarh with a 23-year-old woman testing positive for the novel coronavirus. She had recently returned from the UK.
The outbreak in Maharashtra does not seem to pause as two more positive cases of COVID-19 have come into the limelight. With this Maharashtra now has 47 cases, including three foreigners.
Another positive case was reported in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the state to two -- one each in Nellore and Prakasam districts.
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The heaven of India, Kashmir is also not untouched from the pandemic. Kashmir on Wednesday recorded its first positive case for novel coronavirus in Srinagar. The mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation informed on Twitter that a Srinagar resident had tested positive. The mayor asked people of Srinagar stay at their homes from Thursday morning and do not venture out unnecessarily. The first case in Kashmir took Jammu and Kashmir's tally to four. The Union Territory of Ladakh, meanwhile, has reported eight positive cases so far.
Telangana saw the highest number of reported cases on Wednesday after a group of seven Indonesians and a youth, who returned from Scotland, tested positive for Covid-19. The number of coronavirus cases in Telangana has now reached 13.