NEW DELHI: India's coronavirus tally surged to 10.38 lakh cases this morning after 34,884 new patients were registered in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said. In the last 24 hours, 671 deaths linked to the highly contagious illness were reported, taking the COVID-19 death count to 26,273.

The recovery rate stood at 62.93 per cent this morning. India is the third worst-hit country by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil.
Here are the top 10 developments on coronavirus cases in India:

Maharashtra on Friday logged 8,308 new COVID-19 cases with 1,214 cases from Mumbai. But in a continuing worrying trend, 3,884 of the total cases came from the Thane Division, a major part of which forms the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Mumbai's satellite cities - Thane and Kalyan-Dombivali - now seem to emerge as the new coronavirus hotspots in the state with the entire Thane district (city and rural) reporting 631 cases while Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation reporting 461 new cases.

West Bengal reported 1,894 new coronavirus cases on Friday with 563 from state-capital Kolkata alone. 26 people have died in the last 24 hours in the state as the positivity rate continues to rise with a plummeting discharge rate. Bengal extended the ban on flights coming into Kolkata from six cities across the country - Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur till July 31. The flights were first banned from July 6 until July 19.

Community transmission of coronavirus is taking place in a few coastal areas of Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Friday as he announced lockdown in the affected regions. He, however, said the state government is equipped to handle the rapid growth of COVID-19 cases and there is no need for a comprehensive shut down.

The COVID-19 tally shot past the 40,000 mark in Andhra Pradesh on Friday as 2,062 fresh cases were added in the last 24 hours. The state's COVID-19 table now showed a total of 40,646 positive cases, with 19,814 of them being active after 20,298 patients were discharged.

India will cross the 20 lakh-mark in coronavirus cases by August 10 if the current rate of infection continues, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday morning as he launched a fresh attack on the government over its handling of the pandemic after the country's coronavirus tally surged to 10 lakh infections.