Updated On: 05 April, 2021 08:42 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Maharashtra and Punjab reported 60 per cent of India’s total deaths during the two weeks period ending March 31

A private security guard ties a mask on a woman’s face in Amritsar on Sunday. Pic/AFP
India on Sunday recorded 93,249 new coronavirus infections, the highest single-day rise so far this year, which took the total COVID-19 cases to 1,24,85,509, according to Union health ministry data.
This is the biggest daily rise in cases since September 19, when 93,337 fresh infections were recorded. The death toll climbed to 1,64,623 on Sunday with 513 new fatalities, the ministry data updated at 8 am showed.