<span style="color: #222222;">In Madhya Pradesh, the number of COVID-19 cases in the state has risen to around 38 thousand 157 after 859 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours in the state.<br />''<br />''With 15 patients succumbing to the infection during the day, the death toll has reached 977. As per the state health bulletin, 732 coronavirus patients were discharged from the hospitals yesterday taking the number of recovered cases in the state to 28 thousand 353. <br />''<br />''There are now 8 thousand 827 active cases in Madhya Pradesh. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 cases in Central Reserve Police Force's Group Centre in Gwalior in the state increased by 60 to reach 245.<br />''<br />'' Most personnel have been quarantined at the group centre's hospital. Gwalior has 2 thousand 809 cases, making it the third worst-affected district in MP after Indore and Bhopal. The total number of cases in Indore is 8 thousand 343 and 7 thousand 539 in Bhopal. </span><br />