In a growing tension, Maharashtra, Delhi are among top six states which are responsible for contributing 61 per cent new cases of coronavirus on daily basis in the country.

Rajasthan, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh are also on the same path raising concerns due to rise in the cases of COVID-19. Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday came up come with a fresh list of 19 guidelines on Wednesday for states and Union Territories around the country permitting them to come with local restriction to curtail the further spread.

As 44,489 new confirmed Covid-19 cases were registered in the last 24 hours. 60.72 per cent of these cases are from Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

In terms of fatalities, 60.50 per cent of the 524 case fatalities reported in the past 24 hours are concentrated in Delhi, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

As per the report, 65 per cent of the active cases are in eight states and Union Territories (UTs) which have contributed to the maximum daily new cases and the daily highest deaths. Maharashtra with 85,488 active cases is on top among these eight states and UTs followed by Kerala (65,234), Delhi (38,287), Rajasthan (26, 320), Uttar Pradesh (24,876), West Bengal (24,752), Haryana (20,948) and Punjab (7,129).

The Health Ministry's data shows that 61 per cent of the total fatalities are counted in Maharashtra (34.57per cent) with 46,748 deaths followed by Delhi (6.45 per cent) with 8,720 deaths, West Bengal (6.04 per cent) with 8,172 deaths. The northern state Uttar Pradesh also accounts (5.65 per cent) 7,644 deaths while Punjab (3.46 per cent) has 4,684 deaths, and Haryana (1.69 per cent) with 2,291 fatalities.

Meanwhile, the data reveals that the total recovered cases in India are nearing 87 lakhs.