Coronavirus | Madhya Pradesh reports 20 deaths in a day

Worldwide, over two million cases cases have been reported and the overall death toll is nearly 1,40,000.

PTI

Madhya Pradesh reported 20 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing its death toll to 75. Of this, eight deaths took place in Indore, its most populous city.

Indore also registered 256 new cases in a day, the most for the city till date.

On Wednesday the count in the city stood at 586. With reports from New Delhi detecting 218 new cases and from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore, 26, the numbers grew by 43% to 842.

As the death toll in the country exceeded 450, all residents of Indore in Madhya Pradesh are being screened for Influenza-Like Illness and Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARIs) to check the spread of the novel coronavirus. This comes as the fatality rate in the city shot up to 12%, the highest in the country.

Worldwide, over two million cases cases have been reported and the overall death toll is nearly 1,40,000.