COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh cross 35,000 mark with 797 fresh infections

Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday recorded 797 fresh COVID-19 cases, 172 of them from Bhopal, taking the infection count in the state to 35,082, health officials said. With 12 more people succumbing in the day, the toll went up to 912, they said. 

The number of cases in Indore district rose by 89 to 7,735



while the fatality count went up to 320, the state health bulletin said. Bhopal now has 6,965 cases while the death toll stands at 192, it said. The case count in Gwalior and Jabalpur mounted to 2,590 and 1,506, respectively. At 2,301, Bhopal now has the highest number of active cases in the state while Indore has 1,753 such cases.