New Delhi, March 5 -- India's overall COVID-19 cases surged to 11,173,761 after 16,838 people were tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 1,57,548 people, with 113 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 10.83 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak. A day earlier, the country registered 17,407 new COVID-19 cases and 113 deaths.
Punjab reported more than 1,000 cases for the first time since November 15. The state found 1,071 cases on Thursday, the highest since October 13. It is also the first state, other than Maharashtra and Kerala, to report more than 1,000 cases since Janu...