In eight days, since India recorded three lakh past COVID-19 cases, the numbers speedily crossed four lakh-mark on Sunday with 15,413 new infections, while the death toll rose to 13,254 with 306 fresh fatalities during the same time, as per the Union Health Ministry's data.
When the pandemic broke, India had taken 64 days to cross the one-lakh-mark starting with 100 cases and took another fortnight it counted two lakh cases and paced up to cross the three lakh milestone in just 10 days.
The jump of 15,413 cases has taken India's total count to 4,10,461.
However, on the positive side, the health ministry has said that a complete of 2,27,755 patients are cured of COVID-19 to date and therefore the number of recoveries exceeds the count of active cases by over 58,000. During the last 24 hours, a complete of 13,925 COVID-19 patients are cured and therefore the recovery rate has further improved to 55.49%, it said. Presently, there are 1,69,451 active cases and everyone is under active medical supervision, it added.

Maharashtra claims the biggest share with 5,984 fatalities, of the total 13,254, and the rest is shared by Delhi with 2,112 deaths, Gujarat with 1,638, Tamil Nadu with 704, West Bengal counts 540, Madhya Pradesh 501, Uttar Pradesh 507, Rajasthan 337 and Telangana with deaths.
The COVID-19 toll touched 149 in Haryana, 132 in Karnataka, 101 in Andhra Pradesh, 98 in Punjab, 81 in Jammu and Kashmir, 52 in Bihar, 27 in Uttarakhand, 21 in Kerala and 12 in Odisha.
Incidentally, more than 70% of deaths primarily happened due to comorbidities, but patients had also tested COVID-19 positive.

Maharashtra tops the chart with 1,28,205 cases, Tamil Nadu and Delhi are nudging with 56,845 and 56,746 cases respectively, Gujarat trailing at 26,680, Uttar Pradesh tailing at 16,594, Rajasthan at 14,536 and West Bengal at 13,531, consistent with ministry data.
COVID-19 cases have shot up to 11,724 in Madhya Pradesh, 10,223 in Haryana, 8,697 in Karnataka, 8,452 in Andhra Pradesh, and 7,533 in Bihar.
States and Union Territories like Telangana, Jammu, and Kashmir, Assam, Odisha. Punjab and Kerala are far from getting red-flagged, .
The health ministry said that as a concerted effort to expand the laboratory and testing infrastructure, the amount of state labs has been increased to 722 and therefore the number of personal labs to 259. There is a complete of 981 laboratories now.
Daily sample testing is being steadily increased. In the last 24-hours 1,90,730 samples were tested, while the entire number of samples tested thus far is 68,07,226, it said.
Now, there are 547 Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs functioning, which include 354 government and 193 private labs. There are 358 TrueNat-based testing labs, among which 341 are government and 17are private, while there are 76 CBNAAT-based testing labs, majorly private.