Coronavirus latest updates: 11 more people succumb to virus in India, death toll 43

NEW DELHI: Both the number of deaths due to Covid-19 as well as new cases reported across the country surged to a new single-day high on Monday, with 11 people succumbing to the infection and 157 fresh cases reported from the states. The coronavirus death toll in the country is now 43 while the total number of cases hase risen to 1,280, as per reports till late Monday night.

Telangana reported the maximum five deaths followed by Maharashtra (three), Madhya Pradesh (two) and West Bengal (one).

Here is a look at the latest updates on the outbreak of coronavirus from India and around the world —

Another death in West Bengal, state death toll at 3

Another coronavirus patient died in West Bengal bringing the total number of people to have died of Covid-19 to three.

In Maharashtra, five fresh coronavirus cases were reported — one in Mumbai, two each in Pune and Buldhana. The state’s tally of infected pateints is now 225, the state health department reported.

10 deaths, 300 hosp