A medical worker collects a swab sample for COVID-19 testing in Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra, India, Sept. 12, 2020. India's western state of Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to cross the grim milestone of 1 million cases of COVID-19 with the addition of 24,886 cases on Friday, according to the state health bulletin. (Str/Xinhua)
NEW DELHI, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- India's COVID-19 tally continues to peak on Saturday as 97,570 new cases were detected during the past 24 hours, taking the total to 4,659,984, said the federal health ministry.
Besides, 1,201 more deaths were recorded, taking the death toll to 77,472, according to the data.
There are 958,316 active cases across the country, while 3,624,196 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals.
The country's south-western state of Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected with over a million cases, which means one in every five confirmed cases across the country came from Maharashtra, and nationwide one in every three deaths took place in the state, said media reports. Enditem
