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India registers over 9,000 Covid cases in 24 hours, tally now close to 2.17 lakhs

| @indiablooms | Jun 04, 2020, at 11:00 am

New Delhi/IBNS: India on Thursday registered the biggest daily spike in the Covid-19 cases with the report of 9,304 new infections in the last  24 hours taking the tally of Novel Coronavirus close to 2.17 lakhs.

As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data, India's Covid tally touched 2,16,919 cases.

6,075 people have died due to the pandemic virus which has no vaccine as of yet.

Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, has recorded the maximum number of cases (74,860) followed by Tamil Nadu (25,872), Delhi (23,645) and Gujarat (18,100).

Amid the Unlock 1.0, which commenced on Jun 1, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday announced national airline Air India will operate 75 flights to select destinations in the US and Canada.

Puri tweeted, "AirIndia has announced that it will open bookings from 1700 hrs on 5 June for 75 additional flights to destinations in US & Canada including New York, Newark, Chicago, Washington, SFO, Vancouver & Toronto under 3rd Phase of Vande Bharat Mission between 9-30 June 2020."

However, the minister didn't say much about the resumption of the international passengers flights service.

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