<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 14.95pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The number of COVID-19 cases in thecountry has climbed to 26 thousand 4 hundred and 96 while the death toll roseto 824. Health Ministry data said, the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at19 thousand 868. As many as  five thousand eight hundred and three peoplehave been cured or discharged and one had migrated. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 14.95pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Health Ministry data said, Maharashtra has thehighest number of 7628 cases followed by Gujarat 3071 and  Delhi with 2625cases. Highest number of 323 people have lost lives in Maharashtra. Gujarat hasreported 133 deaths, Madhya Pradesh 99 and Delhi 54 deaths. </span></p>