NEW DELHI : The Union Health Ministry said on Sunday that 106 new cases of the novel coronavirus pandemic and eight deaths were reported from six states in the past 24 hours.
Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said there were 979 confirmed cases in the country, including 25 deaths, till now. The fresh deaths were reported from Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Telengana each.
Maharashtra has reporters eight deaths so far, followed by Gujarat (4), Karnataka (3), Madhya Pradesh and Delhi (2 each), and one each from Kerala, Telengana, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, West Bengal, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.