New Delhi:  According the Union Health Ministry sources on Sunday, the Covid- 19 cases recorded in the country 1, 990 in one day, it is the biggest single day spike so far taking the total to 26, 496 including 824 deaths.

Nearly 68 percent of the Covid-19 cases have been reported from 27 districts, the government data shows, indicating that the virus is spreading in clusters. Forty-nine deaths linked to the highly contagious illness were reported from different parts of the country in the last 24 hours. These “high load districts” are spread across the states and union territories worst hit by the outbreak – Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, among others. In Maharashtra, which has reported India’s 13.8 per cent of Covid-19 cases, 47.6 per cent cases are from Mumbai. In Gujarat, the state with the second highest number of cases in India, nearly 62 per cent of cases have been reported from Ahmadabad.

         The country has recorded a huge jump in Covid-19 cases in seven days. From nearly 16,000 cases reported last Sunday, the Covid-19 count has crossed the 26,000-mark today. The government, however, has said that the recovery rate, indicating the number of people who have successfully fought off the illness, has improved over the last 10 days. More than 5,800 Covid- 19 patients have recovered so far. This morning, the recovery rate stood at 21.09 per cent as compared to 14.19 per cent last week; 741 patients recovered in the last 24 hours.

The Covid- 19 cases in Mumbai has crossed the 5, 000 mark on Saturday. Maharashtra reported 811 new cases, the state with the highest number of Covid-19 patients, taking the total to 7,628. Of these, nearly 240 cases have been recorded from Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum.

The World Health Organization warned on Saturday that people who test positive and survive infection cannot be certain they will not be hit again by the Covid- 19. The warning came as some governments study measures such as “immunity passports” for those who have recovered as one way to get people back to work after weeks of economic shutdown. “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid- 19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection,” the UN health body said in a statement.